How to format your references using the Currents in Biblical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Currents in Biblical Research. 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

Cane, D. E.

2012 ‘Biochemistry: favouring the unfavoured’, Nature 483 (7389) (March 14): 285–286

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratcliff, W. C., and R. F. Denison

2011 ‘Microbiology. Alternative actions for antibiotics’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6029) (April 29): 547–548

A journal article with 3 authors

Sokolov, S., T. Scheuer, and W. A. Catterall

2007 ‘Gating pore current in an inherited ion channelopathy’, Nature 446 (7131) (March 1): 76–78

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, H., Y. Wang, Q. Wang, J. Li, S. Yang, and Z. Zhu

2014 ‘Bifunctional organic polymeric catalysts with a tunable acid-base distance and framework flexibility’, Scientific reports 4 (September 30): 6475

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilisoly, R.

2008 Practical Text Mining with Perl (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), February 7

An edited book

Lorenz, B., and M. C. Brodsky, ed.

2010 Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment (Essentials in OphthalmologyBerlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

Benferhat, S., S. Lagrue, and K. Tabia

2014 ‘Interval-Based Possibilistic Networks’, in U. Straccia and A. Calì (eds.), Scalable Uncertainty Management: 8th International Conference, SUM 2014, Oxford, UK, September 15-17, 2014. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceCham: Springer International Publishing): 37–50

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 Currents in Biblical Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.

2015 Watch The Incredible Moment Philae Landed on Comet 67P, IFLScience (IFLScience), September 16

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

1971 Management of Research and Development in Electronics-Communications Equipment Needs Improvement (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), February 11

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Al Hashimi, H.

2017 Local Measurement and Characterization via Fluorescing Materials for Phase Change Heat Transfer Applications Doctoral dissertation, (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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

Gorman, J.

2017 ‘Ancient Guano Reveals a Tale of Penguins Devastated by Volcanoes’, New York Times, April 11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cane 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cane 2012; Ratcliff and Denison 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ratcliff and Denison 2011)
Three authors: (Sokolov, Scheuer, and Catterall 2007)
4 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Currents in Biblical Research
Abbreviation	Curr. Biblic. Res.
ISSN (print)	1476-993X
ISSN (online)	1745-5200
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