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

Steitz, T. A.

2009 ‘Retrospective. Frederic M. Richards (1925-2009)’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5918) (February 27): 1181

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera, A. M., and M. J. Cohn

2014 ‘Embryonic origin and compartmental organization of the external genitalia’, Scientific reports 4 (November 5): 6896

A journal article with 3 authors

McLeod, P., N. Reed, and Z. Dienes

2003 ‘Psychophysics: how fielders arrive in time to catch the ball’, Nature 426 (6964) (November 20): 244–245

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kumar, P. R., Y. Yu, R. Sternglanz, S. A. Johnston, and L. Joshua-Tor

2008 ‘NADP regulates the yeast GAL induction system’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5866) (February 22): 1090–1092

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makower, T.

2014 Touching the City (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd), October 24

An edited book

Choi, T.-M.

2012 Risk Analysis in Stochastic Supply Chains: A Mean-Risk Approach. Ed. C.-H. Chiu (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; vol. 178New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

Higashi, N.

2015 ‘Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy: Industrial Applications’, in Y. Ozaki and S. Kawata (eds.), Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (Tokyo: Springer Japan): 77–98

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

Andrew, E.

2014 Aging of Brain and Muscles Reversed Through Protein Therapy, IFLScience (IFLScience), May 5

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

2009 Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, But Face Significant Challenges (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), July 16

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Trump, R. K.

2010 Self -brand overlap and dissociation Doctoral dissertation, (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona)

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

Kelly, S.

2000 ‘Op-art; Sub-liminal’, New York Times, October 19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Steitz 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Steitz 2009; Herrera and Cohn 2014).

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

Two authors: (Herrera and Cohn 2014)
Three authors: (McLeod, Reed, and Dienes 2003)
4 or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2008)

About the journal

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