How to format your references using the Research in Dance Education citation style

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

Bloom, B. R. 2000. “On the Particularity of Pathogens.” Nature 406 (6797): 760–761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szathmáry, Eörs, and Szabolcs Számadó. 2008. “Being Human: Language: A Social History of Words.” Nature 456 (7218): 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grzybowski, B. A., H. A. Stone, and G. M. Whitesides. 2000. “Dynamic Self-Assembly of Magnetized, Millimetre-Sized Objects Rotating at a Liquid-Air Interface.” Nature 405 (6790): 1033–1036.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Prasad, Karothu Durga, Jamma Trinath, Ansuman Biswas, Kanagaraj Sekar, Kithiganahalli N. Balaji, and Tayur N. Guru Row. 2014. “Anthrapyrazolone Analogues Intercept Inflammatory JNK Signals to Moderate Endotoxin Induced Septic Shock.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGeough, J. A. 2013. The Engineering of Human Joint Replacements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Sakkas, Denny. 2014. Gamete and Embryo Selection: Genomics, Metabolomics and Morphological Assessment. Edited by Mandy G. Katz-Jaffe and Carlos E. Sueldo. SpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiménez, Antonio R., Fernando Seco, Francisco Zampella, Jose C. Prieto, and Jorge Guevara. 2013. “Indoor Localization of Persons in AAL Scenarios Using an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and the Signal Strength (SS) from RFID Tags.” In Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking: International Competitions and Final Workshop, EvAAL 2012, July and September 2012. Revised Selected Papers, edited by Stefano Chessa and Stefan Knauth, 32–51. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Research in Dance Education.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Stunning New Photos Of Antares Rocket Explosion Released By NASA.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stunning-new-photos-antares-rocket-explosion-released-nasa/.

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. 2017. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Weakness in FAA’s Insurance Calculation May Expose the Federal Government to Excess Risk. GAO-17-366. 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

Knoth, Kenneth Charles. 2017. “Biological Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Examination of an Introductory Level Implementation.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. “Licensing Accord Eases Spotify’s Path to Going Public.” New York Times, April 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloom 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom 2000; Szathmáry and Számadó 2008).

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

Two authors: (Szathmáry and Számadó 2008)
Three authors: (Grzybowski, Stone, and Whitesides 2000)
4 or more authors: (Prasad et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Dance Education
Abbreviation	Res. Dance Educ.
ISSN (print)	1464-7893
ISSN (online)	1470-1111
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education