How to format your references using the International Journal of the Classical Tradition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 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

Marchant, Jo. 2015. Consider all the evidence on alternative therapies. Nature 526: 295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rathmell, Jeffrey C., and Christopher B. Newgard. 2009. Biochemistry. A glucose-to-gene link. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 1021–1022.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, Rune W., Aidas Alaburda, and Jørn Hounsgaard. 2007. Balanced inhibition and excitation drive spike activity in spinal half-centers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315: 390–393.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rouzi, Abdulrahim A., Nisma Almansouri, Nora Sahly, Nawal Alsenani, Hussam Abed, Khalid Darhouse, and Nabil Bondagji. 2014. Efficacy of intra-cervical misoprostol in the management of early pregnancy failure. Scientific reports 4: 7182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Kelly, Michael, and Bohdana Ratitch. 2014. Clinical Trials with Missing Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jasmin, Jean-François, Philippe G. Frank, and Michael P. Lisanti, ed. 2012. Caveolins and Caveolae: Roles in Signaling and Disease Mechanisms. Vol. 729. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, Tao, Yuyu Yuan, and James J. Yoo. 2010. Cell Source for Tissue and Organ Printing. In Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery, ed. Roger Narayan, Thomas Boland, and Yuan-Shin Lee, 57–69. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Journal of the Classical Tradition.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. Typhoon Seen From Space. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 22.

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. 1993. Developing and Using Questionnaires. PEMD-10.1.7. 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

Maffia, Roma. 2014. Image matters: Then and now in televisions’ depiction of African Americans. 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

de la MERCED, Michael J. 2017. Northrop Grumman to Buy Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion. New York Times, September 18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of the Classical Tradition
ISSN (print)	1073-0508
ISSN (online)	1874-6292
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