How to format your references using the Continuum citation style

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

Maziak, Wasim. 2005. “Global Voices of Science. Science in the Arab World: Vision of Glories Beyond.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5727): 1416–1418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wells, James A., and Christopher L. McClendon. 2007. “Reaching for High-Hanging Fruit in Drug Discovery at Protein-Protein Interfaces.” Nature 450 (7172): 1001–1009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pham, Tung Cao Thanh, Hyun Sung Kim, and Kyung Byung Yoon. 2011. “Growth of Uniformly Oriented Silica MFI and BEA Zeolite Films on Substrates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6062): 1533–1538.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fujiki, Ryoji, Toshihiro Chikanishi, Waka Hashiba, Hiroaki Ito, Ichiro Takada, Robert G. Roeder, Hirochika Kitagawa, and Shigeaki Kato. 2009. “GlcNAcylation of a Histone Methyltransferase in Retinoic-Acid-Induced Granulopoiesis.” Nature 459 (7245): 455–459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, Yufeng, Xiaoxue Xu, Zhigang Xu, Junqiang Wang, and Hong Cai. 2017. Metallic Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Idowu, Samuel O., ed. 2016. Key Initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility: Global Dimension of CSR in Corporate Entities. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Francisco, Christopher A., Jeffrey Mermin, and Jay Schweig. 2014. “A Survey of Stanley–Reisner Theory.” In Connections Between Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry, edited by Susan M. Cooper and Sean Sather-Wagstaff, 209–234. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Continuum.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Ravens Know When They’ve Been Cheated, And Remember Who Did It For At Least A Month.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ravens-know-when-theyve-been-cheated-and-remember-who-did-it-for-at-least-a-month/.

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. 2005. Telecommunications: Concerns Regarding the Structure and FCC’s Management of the E-Rate Program. GAO-05-439T. 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

Myers, Rachel E. 2010. “Moderating the Effectiveness of Messages to Promote Physical Activity in Type 2 Diabetes.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Gordon, Michael R. 2017. “U.S. Military Says It Shot Down Drone That Attacked American Allies in Syria.” New York Times, June 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maziak 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Maziak 2005; Wells and McClendon 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wells and McClendon 2007)
Three authors: (Pham, Kim, and Yoon 2011)
4 or more authors: (Fujiki et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Continuum
Abbreviation	Continuum (Mount Lawley)
ISSN (print)	1030-4312
ISSN (online)	1469-3666
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Cultural Studies