How to format your references using the International Critical Thought citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Critical Thought. 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

Rickaby, Ros. 2010. “Journal Club. A Biogeochemist Weighs up the Climatic Influence of CO2.” Nature 465 (7300): 849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stöhr, Klaus, and Marja Esveld. 2004. “Public Health. Will Vaccines Be Available for the next Influenza Pandemic?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5705): 2195–2196.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, Kazuo N., Mohammad Taeb, and Haruko Okusu. 2004. “Biotechnology. Japanese Controversies over Transgenic Crop Regulation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5690): 1572.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kaur, Charanpreet, Anchal Vishnoi, Thilini Udayangani Ariyadasa, Alok Bhattacharya, Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, and Sudhir Kumar Sopory. 2013. “Episodes of Horizontal Gene-Transfer and Gene-Fusion Led to Co-Existence of Different Metal-Ion Specific Glyoxalase I.” Scientific Reports 3 (November): 3076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske, Jay R., and Corinne A. Fiske. 2009. The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wong, W. Eric, and Tingshao Zhu, eds. 2014. Computer Engineering and Networking: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Network (CENet2013). Vol. 277. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaves, Iván Darío Gil, Javier Ricardo Guevara López, José Luis García Zapata, Alexander Leguizamón Robayo, and Gerardo Rodríguez Niño. 2016. “Chemical Reactors.” In Process Analysis and Simulation in Chemical Engineering, edited by Javier Ricardo Guevara López, José Luis García Zapata, Alexander Leguizamón Robayo, and Gerardo Rodríguez Niño, 195–240. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 International Critical Thought.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Researchers Use LED Device To Remotely Control A Mouse.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-use-led-device-remotely-control-mouse/.

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. 1994. Army Aviation: Modernization Strategy Needs to Be Reassessed. NSIAD-95-9. Washington, DC: 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

Quiros, Paula Quintana. 2014. “SNR Estimation and Jamming Detection Techniques Using Wavelets.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Goldstein, Matthew, and Ben Protess. 2017. “Outline Fails to Mention Loophole for the Very Rich.” New York Times, April 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rickaby 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Rickaby 2010; Stöhr and Esveld 2004).

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

Two authors: (Stöhr and Esveld 2004)
Three authors: (Watanabe, Taeb, and Okusu 2004)
4 or more authors: (Kaur et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Critical Thought
Abbreviation	Int. Crit. Thought
ISSN (print)	2159-8282
ISSN (online)	2159-8312
Scope