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

Ross, Joshua V. “Comment on ‘On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects’ II.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5764 (February 24, 2006): 1100; author reply 1100.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kubatko, Laura S., and Dennis K. Pearl. “Evolution. Seeing the Trees in Your Terrace.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333, no. 6041 (July 22, 2011): 411–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss, Istvan Z., Yumei Zhai, and John L. Hudson. “Emerging Coherence in a Population of Chemical Oscillators.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, no. 5573 (May 31, 2002): 1676–78.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, Jung-Youn, Byung-Chun Yoo, Maria R. Rojas, Natalia Gomez-Ospina, L. Andrew Staehelin, and William J. Lucas. “Selective Trafficking of Non-Cell-Autonomous Proteins Mediated by NtNCAPP1.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5605 (January 17, 2003): 392–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi, Yang, Mingxi Liu, and Fang Fang. Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

An edited book

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash. Manufacturing Exports from Indian States: Determinants and Policy Imperatives. Edited by Keshab Das. 1st ed. 2016. India Studies in Business and Economics. New Delhi: Springer India, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, In Tae, Chanil Park, Seong Oun Hwang, and Cheol-Min Park. “Implementation of Bilinear Pairings over Elliptic Curves with Embedding Degree 24.” In Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting: International Conference, MulGraB 2011, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, Part I, edited by Tai-Hoon Kim, Hojjat Adeli, William I. Grosky, Niki Pissinou, Timothy K. Shih, Edward J. Rothwell, Byeong-Ho Kang, and Seung-Jung Shin, 37–43. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

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

Andrews, Robin. “Cat Parasite Linked To Development Of Mental Illness In Owners.” IFLScience. IFLScience, October 13, 2015.

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. “Tax System Modernization: An Assessment of IRS’ Design Master Plan.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 25, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kaplan, Claire M. “Understanding the Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol on the Central Extended Amygdala in Humans.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017.

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

Montague, James. “A Rare Desert Bloom.” New York Times, February 15, 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