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

Schrag, Daniel P. 2007. “Preparing to Capture Carbon.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5813): 812–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogura, Kenji, and Hideyasu Okamura. 2013. “Conformational Change of Sos-Derived Proline-Rich Peptide upon Binding Grb2 N-Terminal SH3 Domain Probed by NMR.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noborisaka, J., K. Nishiguchi, and A. Fujiwara. 2014. “Electric Tuning of Direct-Indirect Optical Transitions in Silicon.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 6950.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wu, Jihuai, Yan Li, Qunwei Tang, Gentian Yue, Jianming Lin, Miaoliang Huang, and Lijian Meng. 2014. “Bifacial Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Strategy to Enhance Overall Efficiency Based on Transparent Polyaniline Electrode.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4028.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keedwell, Edward, and Ajit Narayanan. 2005. Intelligent Bioinformatics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Adams, Andrew A., Michael Brenner, and Matthew Smith, eds. 2013. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2013 Workshops, USEC and WAHC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 7862. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parida, Satya, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Robert A. Pope, Mana Mahapatra, Medhi El Harrak, Joe Brownlie, and Ashley C. Banyard. 2015. “Pathology of Peste Des Petits Ruminants.” In Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus, edited by Muhammad Munir, 51–67. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Crossing When Black? It’ll Take Longer.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/crossing-when-black-itll-take-longer/.

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. 1988. [Comments on Protection of Pricing Information Under GSA Procurement for Telecommunications Services]. B-231156. 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

Coleman, Jason M. 2012. “Classroom Management: Whose Responsibility Is It?” 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

Burghardt, Linda F. 2006. “A Symbol of Carefree, Innocent Fun? Not in Oyster Bay.” New York Times, May 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrag 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Schrag 2007; Ogura and Okamura 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ogura and Okamura 2013)
Three authors: (Noborisaka, Nishiguchi, and Fujiwara 2014)
4 or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

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