How to format your references using the Review of Communication citation style

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

Whyard, Steve. “Plant Science. Insecticidal RNA, the Long and Short of It.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6225 (February 27, 2015): 950–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clem, Roger L., and Richard L. Huganir. “Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptor Dynamics Mediate Fear Memory Erasure.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, no. 6007 (November 19, 2010): 1108–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fowler, Austin G., Simon J. Devitt, and Cody Jones. “Surface Code Implementation of Block Code State Distillation.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1939.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Foukal, P., C. Fröhlich, H. Spruit, and T. M. L. Wigley. “Variations in Solar Luminosity and Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate.” Nature 443, no. 7108 (September 14, 2006): 161–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley, R. H. V., and P. B. Tinker. The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Cacciabue, P. Carlo, ed. Modelling Driver Behaviour in Automotive Environments: Critical Issues in Driver Interactions with Intelligent Transport Systems. London: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Surh, Young-Joon, and Kyung-Soo Chun. “CANCER CHEMOPREVENTIVE EFFECTS OF CURCUMIN.” In The Molecular Targets and Therapeutic Uses of Curcumin in Health and Disease, edited by Bharat B. Aggarwal, Young-Joon Surh, and Shishir Shishodia, 149–72. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007.

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 Review of Communication.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Step Into A Van Gogh With A Virtual Reality Tribute To His Famous Paintings.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 19, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/step-van-gogh-virtual-reality-tribute-his-famous-paintings/.

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. “Aviation Security: Challenges in Using Biometric Technologies.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 19, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, Kathryn. “Comparing High School Physics Standards: What Is Included and What Is Not.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2011.

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

Branch, John. “No White House Visit? Actually, No Invitation.” New York Times, June 13, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Communication
Abbreviation	Rev. Comm.
ISSN (online)	1535-8593
Scope	Communication