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

Kivelson, Margaret Galland. 2006. “Does Enceladus Govern Magnetospheric Dynamics at Saturn?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5766): 1391–1392.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigman, D. M., and E. A. Boyle. 2000. “Glacial/Interglacial Variations in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.” Nature 407 (6806): 859–869.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bolmatov, Dima, Edvard T. Musaev, and K. Trachenko. 2013. “Symmetry Breaking Gives Rise to Energy Spectra of Three States of Matter.” Scientific Reports 3 (September): 2794.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Costello, Elizabeth K., Christian L. Lauber, Micah Hamady, Noah Fierer, Jeffrey I. Gordon, and Rob Knight. 2009. “Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats across Space and Time.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5960): 1694–1697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elias, Hans-Georg. 2006. Macromolecules. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Baek, Joonsang, Feng Bao, Kefei Chen, and Xuejia Lai, eds. 2008. Provable Security: Second International Conference, ProvSec 2008, Shanghai, China, October 30 - November 1, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5324. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kangas, Annika. 2006. “Mensurational Aspects.” In Forest Inventory: Methodology and Applications, edited by Annika Kangas and Matti Maltamo, 53–63. Managing Forest Ecosystems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2017. “The Bizarre Story Of Japan’s First Astronaut.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-bizarre-story-of-japans-first-astronaut/.

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. 2014. Surface Transportation: Actions Needed to Improve Documentation of Key Decisions in the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program. GAO-14-628R. 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

Hill - Carter, Camesha Nichole. 2010. “Effects of Teacher Mentoring on Teacher Retention.” 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

Bromwich, Jonah Engel, and Liam Stack. 2016. “‘Serial’ Podcast Figure Gets New Trial in a Murder He Says He Didn’t Commit.” New York Times, June 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kivelson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kivelson 2006; Sigman and Boyle 2000).

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

Two authors: (Sigman and Boyle 2000)
Three authors: (Bolmatov, Musaev, and Trachenko 2013)
4 or more authors: (Costello et al. 2009)

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