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

Levermann, A.

2014 ‘Climate economics: make supply chains climate-smart’, Nature 506 (7486) (February 6): 27–29

A journal article with 2 authors

Silberzahn, R., and E. L. Uhlmann

2015 ‘Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work’, Nature 526 (7572) (October 8): 189–191

A journal article with 3 authors

Mutanen, M., L. Kaila, and J. Tabell

2013 ‘Wide-ranging barcoding aids discovery of one-third increase of species richness in presumably well-investigated moths’, Scientific reports 3 (October 9): 2901

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Oseki, M., K. Okubo, A. Kobayashi, J. Ohta, and H. Fujioka

2014 ‘Field-effect transistors based on cubic indium nitride’, Scientific reports 4 (February 4): 3951

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk, B.

2017 Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd), March 29

An edited book

Wang, Q. J., and Y.-W. Chung, ed.

2013 Encyclopedia of Tribology (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

Pombo, O.

2011 ‘Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of Unity of Science’, in J. Symons, O. Pombo, and J. M. Torres (eds.), Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands): 59–70

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

Hale, T.

2016 Sony Is Trying To Patent A Contact Lens That Can Record And Play Video At The Blink Of An Eye, IFLScience (IFLScience), May 4

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

1993 FAA Work Forces: Important Decisions Affecting Staff Use and Management (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), June 30

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gossett, J. M.

2009 Autobiographical insights into the spiritual psychologies of Jung and Bion Doctoral dissertation, (Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute)

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

Greenhouse, L.

2005 ‘Justices Are Urged to Dismiss Padilla Case’, New York Times, December 18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levermann 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Levermann 2014; Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)
Three authors: (Mutanen, Kaila, and Tabell 2013)
4 or more authors: (Oseki 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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