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

Landis, G. A. 2000. “Avatars in Space.” Nature 403 (6772): 833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kamena, Faustin, and Anne Spang. 2004. “Tip20p Prohibits Back-Fusion of COPII Vesicles with the Endoplasmic Reticulum.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5668): 286–289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharma, Bhagwati, Sonam Mandani, and Tridib K. Sarma. 2013. “Biogenic Growth of Alloys and Core-Shell Nanostructures Using Urease as a Nanoreactor at Ambient Conditions.” Scientific Reports 3: 2601.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mochizuki, Kimihiro, Tomoaki Yamada, Masanao Shinohara, Yoshiko Yamanaka, and Toshihiko Kanazawa. 2008. “Weak Interplate Coupling by Seamounts and Repeating M Approximately 7 Earthquakes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5893): 1194–1197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezaee, Zabihollah. 2011. Financial Services Firms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Murray, Neil, and Angela Scarino, eds. 2014. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Vol. 9. Multilingual Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrath, Nesrine, Bruno Monsuez, and Kamel Barkaoui. 2014. “A Framework for Verification of SystemC Designs Using SystemC Waiting State Automata.” In Integration of Reusable Systems, edited by Thouraya Bouabana-Tebibel and Stuart H. Rubin, 77–104. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “Search For Planet Nine Finds Four Candidates In Three Days.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Aviation Training: FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors Are Not Receiving Needed Training. RCED-89-168. 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

Wu, Din-Mei Christine. 2010. “Function and Regulation of Drosophila Myc during Wing Growth.” Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia 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

Hanc, John. 2016. “A Marathon Back Door That Leads to a Cause.” New York Times, October 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Landis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Landis 2000; Kamena and Spang 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kamena and Spang 2004)
Three authors: (Sharma, Mandani, and Sarma 2013)
4 or more authors: (Mochizuki et al. 2008)

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