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

Holz, Ronald W. 2013. “Cell Biology. Dynamin Flexibility Drives Fission.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6126): 1392–1393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Summers, Michael F., and Freeman A. Hrabowski 3rd. 2006. “Diversity. Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5769): 1870–1871.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, Simon C., Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Matt Kaeberlein. 2013. “MTOR Is a Key Modulator of Ageing and Age-Related Disease.” Nature 493 (7432): 338–345.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xin, Ling, Yong Liu, Baojun Li, Xiang Zhou, Hui Shen, Wenxia Zhao, and Chaolun Liang. 2014. “Constructing Hierarchical Submicrotubes from Interconnected TiO₂ Nanocrystals for High Reversible Capacity and Long-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulinkovich, Oleg G. 2015. Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sipes, James L. 2013. Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation. Edited by Matthew L. Sipes. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Guterch, Barbara, Hanna Lewandowska-Marciniak, and Maciej Mazur. 2015. “Source Materials to the Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786.” In Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland: Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901, edited by Barbara Guterch and Jan Kozák, 119–179. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “Can Genetics Explain The Success Of East African Distance Runners?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/can-genetics-explain-the-success-of-east-african-distance-runners/.

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. 1997. National Airspace System: Observations on the Wide Area Augmentation System. T-RCED-98-12. 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

Bracht, Kelly D. 2010. “Causes of Nonattendance and Its Effect on Student Achievement at the High School Level.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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

Grynbaum, Michael M., and John Koblin. 2016. “TV Host ‘Ashamed’ of Lewd Chat With Trump.” New York Times, October 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holz 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Holz 2013; Summers and Hrabowski 2006).

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

Two authors: (Summers and Hrabowski 2006)
Three authors: (Johnson, Rabinovitch, and Kaeberlein 2013)
4 or more authors: (Xin et al. 2014)

About the journal

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