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

Lander, E. S. (2011). Initial impact of the sequencing of the human genome. Nature, 470(7333), 187–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nathanson, N., & Fine, P. (2002). Virology. Poliomyelitis eradication--a dangerous endgame. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 269–270.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miner-Williams, W. M., Moughan, P. J., & Fuller, M. F. (2013). Analysis of an ethanol precipitate from ileal digesta: evaluation of a method to determine mucin. Scientific Reports, 3, 3145.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Halloran, M. E., Longini, I. M., Jr, Nizam, A., & Yang, Y. (2002). Containing bioterrorist smallpox. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5597), 1428–1432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan, C. (2011). Basic Guide to Dental Instruments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Krolak-Schwerdt, S., Glock, S., & Böhmer, M. (Eds.). (2014). Teachers’ Professional Development: Assessment, Training, and Learning. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Bird, D. W. (2016). Catalan Political Modernism: The Case of Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga (1873–1941) and Modernism on the Periphery. In A. J. Goldwyn & R. M. Silverman (Eds.), Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (pp. 97–122). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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. (2014, February 11). End-Permian Extinction Happened Much Quicker Than Previously Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/end-permian-extinction-happened-much-quicker-previously-thought/

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. (2001). Aviation Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers (GAO-01-831). 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

Holloway, C. M. (2015). Evaluating five leadership traits in the rising stars succession planning program [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006, January 1). The Legacies They Left. New York Times, 14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lander, 2011; Nathanson & Fine, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nathanson & Fine, 2002)
Three authors: (Miner-Williams et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Halloran et al., 2002)

About the journal

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