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 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

Hakim, Antoine M. 2014. “Perspective: Silent, but Preventable, Perils.” Nature 510 (7506): S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Qiming, and Peng Zhang. 2014. “IR Li2Ga2GeS6 Nanocrystallized GeS2-Ga2S3-Li2S Electroconductive Chalcogenide Glass with Good Nonlinearity.” Scientific Reports 4 (July 2014): 5719.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacDonald, M. P., G. C. Spalding, and K. Dholakia. 2003. “Microfluidic Sorting in an Optical Lattice.” Nature 426 (6965): 421–424.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wood, Justin N., David D. Glynn, Brenda C. Phillips, and Marc D. Hauser. 2007. “The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5843): 1402–1405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crook, Tony, and Peter A. Kemp. 2010. Transforming Private Landlords. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Malley-Morrison, Kathleen, Sherri McCarthy, and Denise Hines, eds. 2013. International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism. Peace Psychology Book Series. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jungmittag, Andre. 2008. “Trends in Foreign Direct Investment.” In Internationalisation of European ICT Activities: Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology, edited by Huub Meijers, Bernhard Dachs, and Paul J. J. Welfens, 132–156. 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

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Dogs Decipher Cues From Other Dogs’ Barks.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 2. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-decipher-cues-other-dogs-barks/.

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. 1991. High-Performance Computing: Industry Uses of Supercomputers and High-Speed Networks. IMTEC-91-58. 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

Liang, Jeffrey Ryan. 2017. “A Risk Analysis of the Molybdenum-99 Supply Chain Using Bayesian Networks.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Gustines, George Gene. 2010. “GRAPHIC BOOKS; Picture This: Graphic Excitement.” New York Times, November 26, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hakim 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hakim 2014; Liu and Zhang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Zhang 2014)
Three authors: (MacDonald, Spalding, and Dholakia 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wood et al. 2007)

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