How to format your references using the Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies (GNOS). 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

Rombough, Peter. 2003. “Development rate: Modelling developmental time and temperature.” Nature 424:268–9; discussion 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Tuyl, Rory and Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2012. “Comment on ‘Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335:657; author reply 657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Audouze, Karine, Brunak, Søren, and Grandjean, Philippe. 2013. “A computational approach to chemical etiologies of diabetes.” Scientific reports 3:2712.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gertsman, Ilya, Gan, Lu, Guttman, Miklos, Lee, Kelly, Speir, Jeffrey A., Duda, Robert L., Hendrix, Roger W., Komives, Elizabeth A., and Johnson, John E. 2009. “An unexpected twist in viral capsid maturation.” Nature 458:646–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aasma, Ants, Dutta, Hemen, and Natarajan, P. N. 2017. An Introductory Course in Summability Theory. Hoboken, NJ: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hellmann, Kurt and Rhomberg, Walter, eds. 2011. Razoxane and Dexrazoxane - Two Multifunctional Agents: Experimental and Clinical Results. Dordrecht: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Summers, Jody A. 2014. The Sclera and Its Role in Regulation of the Refractive State. Pages 59–74 in Pathologic Myopia. Edited by Richard F. Spaide, Kyoko Ohno-Matsui, and Lawrence A. Yannuzzi. New York, NY: New York, NY.

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 Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. New Study Suggests Viruses Are Alive, And That They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cells. IFLScience.

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. 2000. The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs. Washington, DC: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gatti, Daniel M. 2010. Genome-Wide Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation in the Murine Liver. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Bishop, Greg and Pilon, Mary. 2012. A Community Recalls a Star Who Never Left. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
ISSN (print)	2451-8581
ISSN (online)	2451-859X
Scope