How to format your references using the South African Theological Seminary citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Theological Seminary (SATS). 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

Ruth T 2009. Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature 457(7229):536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haq BU, Schutter SR 2008. A chronology of Paleozoic sea-level changes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5898):64–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okada D, Ozawa F, Inokuchi K 2009. Input-specific spine entry of soma-derived Vesl-1S protein conforms to synaptic tagging. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324(5929):904–909.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Philippot P, Van Zuilen M, Lepot K, Thomazo C, Farquhar J, Van Kranendonk MJ 2007. Early Archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5844):1534–1537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI 2013. Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Devonshire-Ellis C, Scott A, Woollard S (eds) 2011. Setting Up Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises in China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Acharya MS, Wu W, Auer M, te Kamp L 2015. Centrifuge Model Test of a Bamboo Crib Wall. In Wu W (ed), Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows, 49–56. 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 South African Theological Seminary.

Blog post

Andrew E 2014. Quantum Correlations Create Incredibly Precise Measurements. Accessed from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-correlations-create-incredibly-precise-measurements/, 2018-10-30.

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 2003. Telecommunications: Uneven Implementation of Wireless Enhanced 911 Raises Prospect of Piecemeal Availability for Years to Come. No. GAO-04-55. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McClinton BE 2010. Preparing for the third age: A retirement planning course outline for lifelong learning programs. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shpigel B 2017 (23 March). U.S. to Face Honduras With a Depleted Roster. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruth 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Haq and Schutter 2008, Ruth 2009).

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

Two authors: (Haq and Schutter 2008)
Three or more authors: (Philippot et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Theological Seminary
ISSN (print)	1996-8167
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