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

Shatz, Carla J. 2013. “David Hunter Hubel (1926-2013).” Nature 502 (7473): 625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buesseler, Ken O., and Philip W. Boyd. 2003. “Climate Change. Will Ocean Fertilization Work?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5616): 67–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eagle, Nathan, Michael Macy, and Rob Claxton. 2010. “Network Diversity and Economic Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5981): 1029–1031.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bi, Ke, Yunsheng Guo, Xiaoming Liu, Qian Zhao, Jinghua Xiao, Ming Lei, and Ji Zhou. 2014. “Magnetically Tunable Mie Resonance-Based Dielectric Metamaterials.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7001.

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. 2012. Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brunst, Holger, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel, and Michael M. Resch, eds. 2012. Tools for High Performance Computing 2011: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2011, ZIH, Dresden. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Levin, Roy J. 2011. “Physiology of Orgasm.” In Cancer and Sexual Health, edited by John P. Mulhall, Luca Incrocci, Irwin Goldstein, and Ray Rosen, 35–49. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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. 2015. “Africa Is Within Reach Of Being Declared A Polio Free Region.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/africa-within-reach-being-declared-polio-free-region/.

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. 2007. Public Transportation: Preliminary Analysis of Changes to and Trends in FTA’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs. GAO-07-812T. 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

Ionedes, Nancy Joanna. 2008. “An Exploration of Social Interest Therapy as a Treatment for Depression in the Elderly.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2007. “Hidden Treasures Of the Food Industry.” New York Times, December 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shatz 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Shatz 2013; Buesseler and Boyd 2003).

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

Two authors: (Buesseler and Boyd 2003)
Three authors: (Eagle, Macy, and Claxton 2010)
4 or more authors: (Bi et al. 2014)

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

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