How to format your references using the Cultural Trends citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cultural Trends. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ruelle, D. (2001). Here be no dragons. Nature, 411(6833), 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Juran, I., & Falcocchio, J. (2011). Retrospective. George Bugliarello (1927-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6025), 50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, P. J., Harris, S., & Webbon, C. C. (2002). Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature, 419(6902), 34.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roper, C., Pearce, R., Nair, S., Sharp, B., Nosten, F., & Anderson, T. (2004). Intercontinental spread of pyrimethamine-resistant malaria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, J. (2012). Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Lübbert, M., & Jones, P. A. (Eds.). (2014). Epigenetic Therapy of Cancer: Preclinical Models and Treatment Approaches. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter, S. (2012). Pater patriae sinensis. The Discovery of Patriarchal Rule in China and Its Significance for German Theories of State in the Eighteenth Century. In A. Flüchter & S. Richter (Eds.), Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter (pp. 61–86). 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 Cultural Trends.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 1). Watch The Test Flight Launch of the Deep-Space Orion Spacecraft. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-test-flight-launch-deep-space-orion-spacecraft/

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. (2002). Science And Technology: Air Force’s Planning Process Meets Statutory Requirement (GAO-02-273). 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

Freedman, R. (2014). Assessing the functional recovery and connectivity potential of restored estuaries in southern California using juvenile predator fish movements [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Von Aue, M. (2017, May 19). A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly.’ New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruelle, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Juran & Falcocchio, 2011; Ruelle, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Juran & Falcocchio, 2011)
Three authors: (Baker et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Roper et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cultural Trends
ISSN (print)	0954-8963
ISSN (online)	1469-3690
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication Cultural Studies