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

Mokyr, Joel. 2015. “ECONOMICS. Intellectuals and the Rise of the Modern Economy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6244): 141–142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogawa, Wataru, and Masato Kasuga. 2008. “Cell Signaling. Fat Stress and Liver Resistance.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5907): 1483–1484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burghes, A. H., H. E. Vaessin, and A. de La Chapelle. 2001. “Genetics. The Land between Mendelian and Multifactorial Inheritance.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5538): 2213–2214.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, C., L. Deng, M. Hong, G. R. Akkaraju, J. Inoue, and Z. J. Chen. 2001. “TAK1 Is a Ubiquitin-Dependent Kinase of MKK and IKK.” Nature 412 (6844): 346–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2007. Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-Startup Safety Reviews. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nagel, Wolfgang E., Dietmar B. Kröner, and Michael M. Resch, eds. 2012. High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’11: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison, John. 2008. “Theorem Proving for Verification (Invited Tutorial).” In Computer Aided Verification: 20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008 Proceedings, edited by Aarti Gupta and Sharad Malik, 11–18. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2016. “How Ancient Warm Periods Can Help Predict Future Climate Change.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-ancient-warm-periods-can-help-predict-future-climate-change/.

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. State Health Insurance Marketplaces: CMS Should Improve Oversight of State Information Technology Projects. GAO-15-527. 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

Shakya, Ranish M. 2014. “Watershed-Scale Evaluation of Flood Reduction Effect of Low Impact Development Designs.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2015. “Santander to Pay $6.4 Million to Islanders in Puerto Rico Bond Settlement.” New York Times, October 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mokyr 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mokyr 2015; Ogawa and Kasuga 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ogawa and Kasuga 2008)
Three authors: (Burghes, Vaessin, and de La Chapelle 2001)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2001)

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