How to format your references using the South African Journal of Communication Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of Communication Disorders (SAJCD). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kirshner, R. (2010). John Huchra (1948-2010). Nature, 468(7321), 174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munk, M. R., & Rückert, R. (2015). To work or not shouldn’t be a question. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruder, W. C., Lu, T., & Collins, J. J. (2011). Synthetic biology moving into the clinic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1248–1252.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pushkarev, A., Inoue, K., Larom, S., Flores-Uribe, J., Singh, M., Konno, M., Tomida, S., Ito, S., Nakamura, R., Tsunoda, S. P., Philosof, A., Sharon, I., Yutin, N., Koonin, E. V., Kandori, H., & Béjà, O. (2018). A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics. Nature, 558(7711), 595–599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell, C. A., & Collins, M. (2010). The One-Page Project Manager for Execution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Liñán Reyes, M., Flores Arias, J. M., González de la Rosa, J. J., Langer, J., Bellido Outeiriño, F. J., & Moreno-Munñoz, A. (Eds.). (2012). IT Revolutions: Third International ICST Conference, Córdoba, Spain, March 23-25, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 82). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Burgoyne, J. A., Wild, J., & Fujinaga, I. (2013). Compositional Data Analysis of Harmonic Structures in Popular Music. In J. Yust, J. Wild, & J. A. Burgoyne (Eds.), Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International Conference, MCM 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 52–63). 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 South African Journal of Communication Disorders.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 31). Preserving The Dead: Weird And Grisly Practices From Around The World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mummification-weird-and-grisly-practices-around-world/

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. (1994). Air Force F-22 Embedded Computers (AIMD-94-177R). 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

Keith, A. (2017). Engagement and Temporary Teams: Considerations for Value Engineering Study Teams and Facilitators [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Brantley, B. (2016, April 28). A Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirshner, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kirshner, 2010; Munk & Rückert, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Munk & Rückert, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Pushkarev et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Communication Disorders
ISSN (print)	0379-8046
ISSN (online)	2225-4765
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