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

Jackson, Michael. “Recruiters and Industry.” Nature 428, no. 6981 (March 25, 2004): 450.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ikehara, Takayuki, and Toshiyuki Kataoka. “Relation between the Helical Twist and S-Shaped Cross Section of the Lamellar Crystals of Polyethylene.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Patterson, David, Melanie Schnell, and John M. Doyle. “Enantiomer-Specific Detection of Chiral Molecules via Microwave Spectroscopy.” Nature 497, no. 7450 (May 23, 2013): 475–77.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tovar, Jorge, Gloria León-Avila, Lidya B. Sánchez, Robert Sutak, Jan Tachezy, Mark van der Giezen, Manuel Hernández, Miklós Müller, and John M. Lucocq. “Mitochondrial Remnant Organelles of Giardia Function in Iron-Sulphur Protein Maturation.” Nature 426, no. 6963 (November 13, 2003): 172–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vicat-Blanc, Pascale, Sébastien Soudan, Romaric Guillier, and Brice Goglin. Computing Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2013.

An edited book

He, Qingshun. Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-Based Study. Edited by Bingjun Yang. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, Ke, and Susumu Terakawa. “Biochemical Studies on Myelin of the Nervous System.” In Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp: The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal Kingdom, edited by Susumu Terakawa, 31–34. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2013.

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. “Human Trial Investigating Cannabis As A Brain Cancer Treatment Set To Begin This Year.” IFLScience. IFLScience, June 13, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/human-trial-investigating-cannabis-brain-cancer-treatment-set-commence-year-embargoed-11-jun/.

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. “Management Improvement in the Federal Government.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 26, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moris, Francisco A. “International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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

Kelly, Caitlin. “Three Win Grant to Start Online Paper.” New York Times, May 27, 2007.

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