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

Pennisi, E. (2013). Geography. Advancing seasons in China. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, Y., & Marsh, J. W. (2001). Selective transcription and modulation of resting T cell activity by preintegrated HIV DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5534), 1503–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bida, T. A., Killen, R. M., & Morgan, T. H. (2000). Discovery of calcium in Mercury’s atmosphere. Nature, 404(6774), 159–161.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schweitzer, M. H., Wittmeyer, J. L., Horner, J. R., & Toporski, J. K. (2005). Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1952–1955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell, M. (2016). Incremental Software Architecture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ikeda, K. (2014). Bifurcation Theory for Hexagonal Agglomeration in Economic Geography. (K. Murota, Ed.). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, L., Hedayat, A. S., & Wu, W. (2012). A Unified Model for Continuous and Categorical Data. In A. S. Hedayat & W. Wu (Eds.), Statistical Tools for Measuring Agreement (pp. 75–110). New York, NY: 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, November 4). Flexible Film May Be Next Big Thing In Energy Production. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/flexible-film-may-be-next-big-thing-energy-production/. 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. (1977). Pricing of a Fixed-Price Incentive Contract Awarded to RCA Corporation by the Goddard Space Flight Center (No. PSAD-78-49). 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

Pepper, I. (2010). On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017, January 8). Steelers Flex Muscle, on Ground and Through the Air. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pennisi 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pennisi 2013; Wu and Marsh 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Marsh 2001)
Three or more authors: (Schweitzer et al. 2005)

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