How to format your references using the Representation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Representation. 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

DE LANEROLLE, PRIMAL. 2005. Recruiters and academia. Top 10 tips for success in graduate school. Nature 433 (7024): 442.

A journal article with 2 authors

PANDEY, A., and M. MANN. 2000. Proteomics to study genes and genomes. Nature 405 (6788): 837–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

LOSONCZY, ATTILA, JUDIT K. MAKARA, and JEFFREY C. MAGEE. 2008. Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity and input feature storage in neurons. Nature 452 (7186): 436–41.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

GUARDA, GRETA et al. 2009. T cells dampen innate immune responses through inhibition of NLRP1 and NLRP3 inflammasomes. Nature 460 (7252): 269–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DOSIL, JOAQUÍN. 2008. Eating Disorders in Athletes. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

COLLINS, JOHN et al., ed. 2008. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis: AAMAS 2007 Workshop, AMEC 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 14, 2007, and AAAI 2007 Workshop, TADA 2007, Vancouver, Canada, July 23, 2007, Selected and Revised Papers. Vol. 13. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

REHM, GEORG, and HANS USZKOREIT. 2012. Om META-NET. In The Danish Language in the Digital Age, edited by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit. White Paper Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 32–32.

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 Representation.

Blog post

ANDREW, ELISE. 2015. Bug Burgers, Anyone? Why We’re Opening The UK’s First Insect Restaurant. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bug-burgers-anyone-why-we-re-opening-uk-s-first-insect-restaurant/, 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. 1980. Highway Safety Research and Development--Better Management Can Make It More Useful. CED-80-87. 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

EMMERLING-BAKER, DENISE. 2017. A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University.

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

(NYT), SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY. 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Admiral Convicted In Sub Deaths. New York Times, May 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Lanerolle 2005).
This sentence cites two references (de Lanerolle 2005; Pandey and Mann 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pandey and Mann 2000)
Three authors: (Losonczy, Makara, and Magee 2008)
4 or more authors: (Guarda et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Representation
ISSN (print)	0034-4893
ISSN (online)	1749-4001
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