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How to format your references using the Journal for the Study of the New Testament citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ellsworth, William L.
2013
‘Injection-induced earthquakes’, Science 341.6142: 1225942.
A journal article with 2 authors
Geddis, Amy E., and Kenneth Kaushansky
2007
‘Immunology. The root of platelet production’, Science 317.5845: 1689–91.
A journal article with 3 authors
Montaño, Sherwin P., Ying Z. Pigli and Phoebe A. Rice
2012
‘The μ transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution’, Nature 491.7424: 413–17.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Matsuda, Tomoki, Kazuki Horikawa, Kenta Saito, et al.
2013
‘Highlighted Ca2+ imaging with a genetically encoded “caged” indicator’, Sci. Rep. 3: 1398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Hansen, Steen, Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard and Knut Rasmussen
2011
Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemical Analysis (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).
An edited book
Missbach, Michael
2013
SAP on the Cloud (eds. Josef Stelzel, Cameron Gardiner, George Anderson, et al.) (Management for Professionals; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).
A chapter in an edited book
Morschett, Dirk, Hanna Schramm-Klein and Joachim Zentes
2010
‘Motives for Intelnationalisation’, in Hanna Schramm-Klein and Joachim Zentes (eds.), Strategic International Management: Text and Cases (Wiesbaden: Gabler): 71–91.

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 Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, Jonathan
2016
‘NASA Will Be Making An Announcement Today - Here’s How To Watch Live’, (IFLScience). Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-nasa-announces-latest-discoveries-made-its-kepler-telescope/ (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
2005
Information Technology: OMB Can Make More Effective Use of Its Investment Reviews (15 April; 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
Rose, Laura
2012
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: An Exploration From Science to Soul (Doctoral dissertation; Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA).

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
Saslow, Linda
2007
‘A $10 Million Grant for Homes for the Homeless’, New York Times, 18 March.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellsworth 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ellsworth 2013; Geddis and Kaushansky 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Geddis and Kaushansky 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Matsuda et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal for the Study of the New Testament
ISSN (print)0142-064X
ISSN (online)1745-5294
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