How to format your references using the American Journal of Dance Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Dance Therapy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Smith, O. (2001). Chemistry. Nota bene: know thine enemy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5545), 1298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frégnac, Y., & Laurent, G. (2014). Neuroscience: Where is the brain in the Human Brain Project? Nature, 513(7516), 27–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riemer, J., Bulleid, N., & Herrmann, J. M. (2009). Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1284–1287.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Koshnick, N. C., Bluhm, H., Huber, M. E., & Moler, K. A. (2007). Fluctuation superconductivity in mesoscopic aluminum rings. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1440–1443.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Hayward, A., & Weare, F. (2010). Steel Detailers’ Manual. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pretzsch, J., Darr, D., Uibrig, H., & Auch, E. (Eds.). (2014). Forests and Rural Development (Vol. 9). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gross, O., Thomas, C. J., & Layland, L. E. (2011). Inflammasome Activation in Response to Eukaryotic Pathogens. In I. Couillin, V. Pétrilli, & F. Martinon (Eds.), The Inflammasomes (pp. 65–83). Basel: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for American Journal of Dance Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 15). Magnetar Formation: It’s A Game Of Pass The Parcel. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/magnetar-formation-its-game-pass-parcel/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2016). Inland Waterways Fuel Tax: Additional Data Could Enhance IRS’s Efforts to Ensure Taxpayer Compliance (No. GAO-16-682). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hogue, M. L. (2012). A Case Study of Perspectives on Building School and Community Partnerships (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse, L. (2007, January 23). Supreme Court Constrains Judges’ Power in Sentencing. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Frégnac and Laurent 2014; Smith 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Frégnac and Laurent 2014)
Three or more authors: (Koshnick et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Dance Therapy
Abbreviation	Am. J. Dance Ther.
ISSN (print)	0146-3721
ISSN (online)	1573-3262
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health