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

Brashears, M. E. (2013). Humans use compression heuristics to improve the recall of social networks. Scientific Reports, 3, 1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parsons, J., & Wand, Y. (2008). A question of class. Nature, 455(7216), 1040–1041.

A journal article with 3 authors

Terrones, H., López-Urías, F., & Terrones, M. (2013). Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides. Scientific Reports, 3, 1549.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Satoh-Nagasawa, N., Nagasawa, N., Malcomber, S., Sakai, H., & Jackson, D. (2006). A trehalose metabolic enzyme controls inflorescence architecture in maize. Nature, 441(7090), 227–230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R. L. (2005). Fundamentals of Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang, X. (2012). Incomplete Information System and Rough Set Theory: Models and Attribute Reductions (J. Yang, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schillat, M. (2016). Adventure Tourism Poses New Challenges for the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO). In M. Jensen, M. Vereda, R. A. Sánchez, & R. Roura (Eds.), Tourism in Antarctica: A Multidisciplinary View of New Activities Carried Out on the White Continent (pp. 65–74). Springer International Publishing.

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, August 6). These Simulations Let You Visualize What It Would Look Like If The The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hit Your City. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). ADP Acquisitions: Patent Automation Encountering Major Planning and Procurement Problems (IMTEC-86-19). 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

Jaime, A. A. (2017). “Cockroach centuries”: The cockroach image as the conduit for the marginalized beat woman and artist in Elise Cowen’s cockroach poetry [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

Novick, S. M. (2016, March 27). A Brasserie With an Irreverent Side. New York Times, LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brashears, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Brashears, 2013; Parsons & Wand, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Parsons & Wand, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Satoh-Nagasawa et al., 2006)

About the journal

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