How to format your references using the Interpreting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interpreting (INTP). 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

Gardner, J. A. (2000). Ars longa, vita brevis. Nature 408 (6809), 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camilli, A. & Bassler, B. L. (2006). Bacterial small-molecule signaling pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5764), 1113–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortes, A. D., Suard, E. & Knight, K. S. (2011). Negative linear compressibility and massive anisotropic thermal expansion in methanol monohydrate. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6018), 742–746.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liang, Y.-L., Khoshouei, M., Glukhova, A., Furness, S. G. B., Zhao, P., Clydesdale, L., Koole, C., Truong, T. T., Thal, D. M., Lei, S., and others (2018). Phase-plate cryo-EM structure of a biased agonist-bound human GLP-1 receptor-Gs complex. Nature 555 (7694), 121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi, M. H. (2010). Troubleshooting the Sequencing Batch Reactor. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chancellor, M. B. & Diokno, A. C. (Eds.) (2016). The Underactive Bladder (1st ed. 2016 ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Palmer, M. H. (2013). (In)Digitizing Cáuigú Historical Geographies: Technoscience as a Postcolonial Discourse. In A. von Lünen & C. Travis (Eds.), History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 39–58.

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 Interpreting.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 1). Bald Eagles Caught Eating A Cat In Their Nest On Live Webcam. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bald-eagles-bringing-kitten-their-nest-caught-live-webcam/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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 (1985). Automated Information Systems Security in Federal Civil Agencies. Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

McKenzie, R. A. (2012). A correlational study of servant leadership and teacher job satisfaction in a public education institution. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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, B. (2017, February 23). The Boy’s Rescued. He Isn’t Free. New York Times, p. C6. , C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gardner 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Camilli & Bassler 2006; Gardner 2000).

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

Two authors: (Camilli & Bassler 2006)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Interpreting
ISSN (print)	1384-6647
ISSN (online)	1569-982X
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