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

Willner, I. ‘Tech.Sight. Bioelectronics. Biomaterials for sensors, fuel cells, and circuitry’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, no. 5602 (2002): 2407–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salinga, M., and M. Wuttig. ‘Applied physics. Phase-change memories on a diet’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6029 (2011): 543–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiang, G. Y., H. F. Hofmann, and G. J. Pryde. ‘Optimal multi-photon phase sensing with a single interference fringe’. Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2684.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Schreiner, P., X. Chen, K. Husnjak, L. Randles, N. Zhang, S. Elsasser, D. Finley, I. Dikic, K. J. Walters, et al. ‘Ubiquitin docking at the proteasome through a novel pleckstrin-homology domain interaction’. Nature 453, no. 7194 (2008): 548–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, R. R. Executive’s Guide to IT Governance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Khalilpour, K. R. Community Energy Networks With Storage: Modeling Frameworks for Distributed Generation. Edited by A. Vassallo. Green Energy and Technology. Singapore: Springer, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S. J., and B. Diamond. ‘Endogenous Control of Dendritic Cell Activation by miRNA’. Pages 85–103 in MicroRNAs and Other Non-Coding RNAs in Inflammation. Edited by C. M. Greene. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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

Andrew, E. ‘Keychain First Aid Kit Might Help Save The Bees’. IFLScience. IFLScience, September 18, 2014. No pages. Cited 30 October 2018. Online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/keychain-first-aid-kit-might-help-save-bees/.

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. Tax System Modernization: Status of IRS’ Input Processing Initiative. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 12, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams, K. ‘From Cribs to Crayons: A Study on the Use of Universal Curriculum and Assessment of Preschool Students and Teachers in the Classroom’. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana, 2016.

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

Sulcas, R. ‘Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, 75’. New York Times, December 9, 2014.

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

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