How to format your references using the Centaurus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Centaurus. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kushner, J. A. (2012) Development. Esophageal stem cells, where art thou? Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1051–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickaby, R. E. M. and Halloran, P. (2005) Cool La Niña during the warmth of the Pliocene? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1948–1952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conway, S. L., Shinbrot, T., and Glasser, B. J. (2004) A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows. Nature, 431(7007), 433–437.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

van de Loosdrecht, M., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Posth, C., et al. (2018) Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6388), 548–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen, W. (2010) Strategic Learning (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Dragan, V. (2013) Mathematical Methods in Robust Control of Linear Stochastic Systems 2nd ed. 2013. T. Morozan and A.-M. Stoica (eds.) (New York, NY: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Upton, D. and Upton, P. (2015) Quality of Life and Well-Being, in:, P. Upton (ed.), Psychology of Wounds and Wound Care in Clinical Practice (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 85–111.

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 Centaurus.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) [online] How Many Locusts Does It Take To Start A Biblical Plague? Just Three. IFLScience, IFLScience. Available online at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-many-locusts-does-it-take-start-biblical-plague-just-three/ (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 (1986) Attack Warning: ADP Replacement for Warning and Assessment System Still Years Away (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

Enriquez, M. (2010) Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, 20 January) Young Player Has Made Her Name by Speaking Her Mind. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kushner, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kushner, 2012; Rickaby & Halloran, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Rickaby & Halloran, 2005)
Three authors: (Conway, Shinbrot, & Glasser, 2004)
4 or more authors: (van de Loosdrecht et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Centaurus
Abbreviation	Centaurus
ISSN (print)	0008-8994
ISSN (online)	1600-0498
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science