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

BOWERMAN, BRUCE. 2008. Cell signaling. Wnt moves beyond the canon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5874): 327–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

CLARDY, JON, and CHRISTOPHER WALSH. 2004. Lessons from natural molecules. Nature 432 (7019): 829–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

TZFIRA, TZVI, MANJUSHA VAIDYA, and VITALY CITOVSKY. 2004. Involvement of targeted proteolysis in plant genetic transformation by Agrobacterium. Nature 431 (7004): 87–92.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

YOKOSAKA, TAKUMI et al. 2014. Alternating images of congruent and incongruent movement creates the illusion of agency. Scientific reports 4: 6201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

JAKUBITH, MANUEL. 1998. Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

AWREJCEWICZ, JAN. 2008. Chaos in Structural Mechanics. Edited by Vadim Anatolevich Krys’ko. Understanding Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

HOGG, TAD, DAVID A. FATTAL, KAY-YUT CHEN, and SAIKAT GUHA. 2010. Economic Applications of Quantum Information Processing. In Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques, edited by Banasri Basu, Satya R. Chakravarty, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, and Kausik Gangopadhyay. New Economic Windows. Milano: Springer, pp. 32–43.

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

DAVIS, JOSH. 2015. Do You Have Aphantasia? IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cant-imagine-pictures-your-mind-you-might-have-aphantasia/, 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. 1997. Intellectual Property: Comparison of Patent Examination Statistics for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995. RCED-97-58. 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

SOLANO, ERICA ANGELINE. 2012. Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola, ope 11, no.4 A compositional and historical perspective. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

WILLIAMS, JOHN. 2017. Ruminations on the Inquiring Mind. New York Times, July 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowerman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bowerman 2008; Clardy and Walsh 2004).

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

Two authors: (Clardy and Walsh 2004)
Three authors: (Tzfira, Vaidya, and Citovsky 2004)
4 or more authors: (Yokosaka et al. 2014)

About the journal

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