How to format your references using the Communication Teacher citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Communication Teacher. 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

Fitzgerald, G. (2010). Drug development needs a new brand of science. Nature, 468(7326), 869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, T., & Wyse, S. (2012). IBI series winner. A season for inquiry: investigating phenology in local campus trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 932–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conaway, R. C., Brower, C. S., & Conaway, J. W. (2002). Emerging roles of ubiquitin in transcription regulation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1254–1258.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Q., Xue, C., Liu, J.-P., Wu, J.-F., Yang, S.-Q., Shao, C.-G., Quan, L.-D., Tan, W.-H., Tu, L.-C., Liu, Q., Xu, H., Liu, L.-X., Wang, Q.-L., Hu, Z.-K., Zhou, Z.-B., Luo, P.-S., Wu, S.-C., Milyukov, V., & Luo, J. (2018). Measurements of the gravitational constant using two independent methods. Nature, 560(7720), 582–588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt, G. J., & Johnson, W. P. (2011). Making Sense of Data III. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Perna, C., & Sibillo, M. (Eds.). (2012). Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Choong, C.-J., Sumi-Akamaru, H., & Mochizuki, H. (2015). Parkinson’s Disease; Neurodegeneration as Systemic Disease. In K. Wada (Ed.), Neurodegenerative Disorders as Systemic Diseases (pp. 69–87). Springer Japan.

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 Communication Teacher.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 14). How Big Are The Largest Marine Animals? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/here-are-true-sizes-large-marine-species/

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). Federal Student Loans: Education Could Improve Direct Loan Program Customer Service and Oversight (GAO-16-523). 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

Bhandari, S. (2017). The Role of System of Systems in Additive Manufacturing [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, October 3). Burgers With Attitude. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fitzgerald, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fitzgerald, 2010; Long & Wyse, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Long & Wyse, 2012)
Three authors: (Conaway et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Communication Teacher
ISSN (print)	1740-4622
ISSN (online)	1740-4630
Scope	Education Communication