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

Zamore, Phillip D. 2002. Ancient pathways programmed by small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1265–1269.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burlini, Luigi, and Giulio Di Toro. 2008. Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 207–208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalokairinou, Louiza, Heidi Carmen Howard, and Pascal Borry. 2014. Science and Regulation. Changes on the horizon for consumer genomics in the EU. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346: 296–298.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Pu, Xuhui Huang, Ruhong Zhou, and B. J. Berne. 2005. Observation of a dewetting transition in the collapse of the melittin tetramer. Nature 437: 159–162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monks, Robert A. G., Alexandra Reed Lajoux, and Dean LeBaron. 2010. Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Balogh, André. 2008. The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle. Edited by Louis J. Lanzerotti and Steven T. Suess. Springer Praxis Books. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hasiewicz, Zygmunt, Grzegorz Mzyk, and Przemysław Śliwiński. 2010. Quasi-parametric Recovery of Hammerstein System Nonlinearity by Smart Model Selection. In Artifical Intelligence and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference, ICAISC 2010, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010, Part II, ed. Leszek Rutkowski, Rafał Scherer, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Jacek M. Zurada, 34–41. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. 2014. According To A Nasa Funded Study, We’re Pretty Much Screwed. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 19.

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. 2004. Aviation Assistance: Compensation Criteria and Payment Equity under the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act. GAO-04-725R. 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

Foster, Henry Clay. 2017. The effect of droplet size and sprayer type on physical drift. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Seltzer, Michael. 2017. Doctor in the House. New York Times, September 10.

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
Scope