How to format your references using the International Studies in Catholic Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Studies in Catholic Education. 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

Chiorescu, Irinel. 2006. “Physics. Microwave Cooling of an Artificial Atom.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5805): 1549–1550.

A journal article with 2 authors

Larrick, Richard P., and Jack B. Soll. 2008. “Economics. The MPG Illusion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5883): 1593–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rees, Martin, Ben Koppelman, and Neil Davison. 2010. “Scientific Steps to Nuclear Disarmament.” Nature 465 (7296): 290–291.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Davidson, Alan J., Patricia Ernst, Yuan Wang, Marcus P. S. Dekens, Paul D. Kingsley, James Palis, Stanley J. Korsmeyer, George Q. Daley, and Leonard I. Zon. 2003. “Cdx4 Mutants Fail to Specify Blood Progenitors and Can Be Rescued by Multiple Hox Genes.” Nature 425 (6955): 300–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cofnas, Abe. 2011. Trading Binary Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

El-Meliegy, Emad. 2012. Glasses and Glass Ceramics for Medical Applications. Edited by Richard van Noort. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Regolin, Lucia, Jonathan N. Daisley, Orsola Rosa Salva, and Giorgio Vallortigara. 2013. “Advantages of a Lateralised Brain for Reasoning About the Social World in Chicks.” In Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates: Two Sides of the Same Coin, edited by Davide Csermely and Lucia Regolin, 39–54. 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 Studies in Catholic Education.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Someone Has Rewritten ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ For Geeks, And It’s Absolutely Hilarious.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/twitter-accounts-rewrites-fifty-shades-grey-geeks/.

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. 1996. D.C. Emergency Highway Relief Act. RCED-96-196R. 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

Noxon, Corey. 2017. “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. “A Playwright Intent on Naming, and Goading, the Beast Within.” New York Times, September 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiorescu 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chiorescu 2006; Larrick and Soll 2008).

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

Two authors: (Larrick and Soll 2008)
Three authors: (Rees, Koppelman, and Davison 2010)
4 or more authors: (Davidson et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in Catholic Education
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Cathol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1942-2539
ISSN (online)	1942-2547
Scope	Religious studies Education