How to format your references using the Continuity and Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Continuity and Change. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

P. Coleman, ‘Superconductivity. On the verge of magnetism’, Nature 406, 6796 (2000), 580–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

David S. Aaronson and Curt M. Horvath, ‘A road map for those who don’t know JAK-STAT’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, 5573 (2002), 1653–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robert L. Charlebois, Robert G. Beiko and Mark A. Ragan, ‘Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out’, Nature 421, 6920 (2003), 217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Steinn Sigurdsson, Harvey B. Richer, Brad M. Hansen, Ingrid H. Stairs and Stephen E. Thorsett, ‘A young white dwarf companion to pulsar B1620-26: evidence for early planet formation’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 5630 (2003), 193–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zofia Adamowicz and Paweł Zbierski, Logic of Mathematics, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997).

An edited book

Xiangdong Wang ed., Bioinformatics of Human Proteomics, (Springer Netherlands, 2013), iii.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanislava Šimberová and Tomáš Suk, ‘Analysis of Dynamic Processes by Statistical Moments of High Orders’, in José Ruiz-Shulcloper and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja ed., Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications: 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013, Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (Springer, 2013), 33–40.

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 Continuity and Change.

Blog post

Janet Fang, ‘Cassini Made One Final Flyby of Saturn’s Moon Dione’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015) https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-made-one-final-flyby-saturns-moon-dione/ [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, Screening Partnership Program: Improved Cost Estimates Can Enhance Program Decision Making, (U.S. Government Printing Office, 17 November 2015).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zulia M. Sanchez-Mejia, Monsoon Dependent Ecosystems: Implications of the Vertical Distribution of Soil Moisture on Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, (Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2013).

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

Susan Chira, ‘What Women Lost’, New York Times, 30 December 2016, SR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Continuity and Change
ISSN (print)	0268-4160
ISSN (online)	1469-218X
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