How to format your references using the High Ability Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for High Ability Studies. 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

Harmer, M. P. (2011). Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsai, L., & Barnea, G. (2014). A critical period defined by axon-targeting mechanisms in the murine olfactory bulb. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew, R. C., Miller, B. R., & Weiss, R. F. (2000). Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature, 403(6767), 292–295.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bashir, T., Dorrello, N. V., Amador, V., Guardavaccaro, D., & Pagano, M. (2004). Control of the SCF(Skp2-Cks1) ubiquitin ligase by the APC/C(Cdh1) ubiquitin ligase. Nature, 428(6979), 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cook, M. (2008). Personnel Selection. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rinderle-Ma, S., Toumani, F., & Wolf, K. (Eds.). (2011). Business Process Management: 9th International Conference, BPM 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 30 - September 2, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6896). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanrahan, H. (2009). Toward Consensus Global Standards for Quality Assurance of Engineering Programmes. In A. Patil & P. Gray (Eds.), Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (pp. 51–71). Springer US.

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 High Ability Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 29). Scientists Create Artificial Neuron that Functions Like the Real Thing. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-create-artificial-neuron-functions-real-thing/

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). Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role (GAO-10-293T). 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

Teater, M. R. (2009). Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women [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

Stellin, S. (2014, May 8). Your Digital Trail Follows You to the Border. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harmer, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Harmer, 2011; Tsai & Barnea, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tsai & Barnea, 2014)
Three authors: (Rhew et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Bashir et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	High Ability Studies
Abbreviation	High Abil. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1359-8139
ISSN (online)	1469-834X
Scope	Education