How to format your references using the New Testament Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Testament Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gunawardena, J. ‘Systems biology. Biological systems theory’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, no. 5978 (2010): 581–82.

A journal article with 2 authors

Katz, A., and M. E. Davis. ‘Molecular imprinting of bulk, microporous silica’. Nature 403, no. 6767 (2000): 286–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Salganik, M. J., P. S. Dodds, and D. J. Watts. ‘Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5762 (2006): 854–56.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Eathiraj, S., X. Pan, C. Ritacco, and D. G. Lambright. ‘Structural basis of family-wide Rab GTPase recognition by rabenosyn-5’. Nature 436, no. 7049 (2005): 415–19.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ho, R. J. Y., and M. Gibaldi. Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.

An edited book

Park, J. H., J. Zhan, C. Lee, G. Wang, T.-H. Kim, and S.-S. Yeo, eds. Advances in Information Security and Its Application: Third International Conference, ISA 2009, Seoul, Korea, June 25-27, 2009. Proceedings. Vol. 36. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Froelich, A. G. ‘Developing a Statistics Curriculum for Future Secondary Mathematics Teachers’. Pages 27–31 in Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education: A Joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study. Edited by C. Batanero, G. Burrill, and C. Reading. New ICMI Study Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

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 New Testament Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, S. ‘Bronze Age “World War Zero” Could Have Wiped Out A Mysterious Civilization’. IFLScience. IFLScience, May 18, 2016. No pages. Cited 30 October 2018. Online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/claims-bronze-age-world-war-zero/.

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. Telecommunications: GSA’s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 13, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kuang, S.-Y. H. ‘“And the War Came”: A memorial to devastated lives’. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Hodara, S. ‘In a Valley of Invention’. New York Times, May 15, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	New Testament Studies
Abbreviation	New Testam. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0028-6885
ISSN (online)	1469-8145
Scope	History Religious studies