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

Kirshner, Robert. 2010. “John Huchra (1948-2010).” Nature 468 (7321): 174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, James S., and Jason S. McLachlan. 2003. “Stability of Forest Biodiversity.” Nature 423 (6940): 635–638.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman, R. Tucker, Scott L. Nuismer, and Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng. 2012. “Coevolution in Multidimensional Trait Space Favours Escape from Parasites and Pathogens.” Nature 483 (7389): 328–330.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Weber, Cédric, Mathias Carlen, Giovanni Dietler, Eric J. Rawdon, and Andrzej Stasiak. 2013. “Sedimentation of Macroscopic Rigid Knots and Its Relation to Gel Electrophoretic Mobility of DNA Knots.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 1091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mauthe, Andreas, and Peter Thomas. 2005. Professional Content Management Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barceló, Juan A., and Florencia Del Castillo, eds. 2016. Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Computational Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wakiyama, Takako, Ambiyah Abdullah, and Joni Jupesta. 2016. “Economic Impact Assessment on Low-Carbon Investment in Renewable Energy in Yokohama, Japan.” In Low Carbon Urban Infrastructure Investment in Asian Cities, edited by Joni Jupesta and Takako Wakiyama, 77–93. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Ancient River Dolphin Relative Discovered In Peru Desert.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-river-dolphin-relative-discovered-peru-desert/.

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. 2015. International Space Station: Measurable Performance Targets and Documentation Needed to Better Assess Management of National Laboratory. GAO-15-397. 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

Flores, Monica Y. 2010. “Delinquency Prevention Program for Latino Youth: A Grant Proposal Project.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

St. John Kelly, Erin. 1998. “Bikes That Roll Toward Jobs.” New York Times, June 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirshner 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kirshner 2010; Clark and McLachlan 2003).

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

Two authors: (Clark and McLachlan 2003)
Three authors: (Gilman, Nuismer, and Jhwueng 2012)
4 or more authors: (Weber et al. 2013)

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