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

Ball, P. (2011). Beyond the bond. Nature, 469(7328), 26–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gombosi, T. I., & Hansen, K. C. (2005). Saturn’s variable magnetosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5713), 1224–1226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira, N., Berman, J. R., & Kenyon, C. (2003). Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, J., Feng, C.-Q., Sun, Z.-Q., Chou, S.-L., Liu, H.-K., & Wang, J.-Z. (2014). In-situ one-step hydrothermal synthesis of a lead germanate-graphene composite as a novel anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Scientific reports, 4, 7030.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Happer, W., Jau, Y.-Y., & Walker, T. (2010). Optically Pumped Atoms. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lenarcic, J. (2013). Robot Mechanisms. (T. Bajd & M. M. Stanišić, Eds.) (Vol. 60). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bitušík, P., Kubovčík, V., Štefková, E., Appleby, P. G., & Svitok, M. (2009). Subfossil diatoms and chironomids along an altitudinal gradient in the High Tatra Mountain lakes: a multi-proxy record of past environmental trends. In K. Buczkó, J. Korponai, J. Padisák, & S. W. Starratt (Eds.), Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water (pp. 65–85). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 29). Building Has Started On The Extremely Large Telescope. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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). National Mediation Board: Progress Made on Some GAO Recommendations to Strengthen Operations, but Key Controls Continue to Be Needed (No. GAO-16-240). 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

Hilton, L. C. (2015). Case study on organic farming as a sustainable solution for African-American farmers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis, L. B., & JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN. (1950, January 22). Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS “ERPIVORI” OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times, p. The New York Times Magazine151.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ball 2011; Gombosi and Hansen 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gombosi and Hansen 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

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

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