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

Percy AK 2013. Neuroscience. Path to treat Rett syndrome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342(6156):318–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cermeño P, Falkowski PG 2009. Controls on diatom biogeography in the ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325(5947):1539–1541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalisz S, Vogler DW, Hanley KM 2004. Context-dependent autonomous self-fertilization yields reproductive assurance and mixed mating. Nature 430(7002):884–887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raya A, Kawakami Y, Rodríguez-Esteban C, Ibañes M, Rasskin-Gutman D, Rodríguez-León J, Büscher D, Feijó JA, Izpisúa Belmonte JC 2004. Notch activity acts as a sensor for extracellular calcium during vertebrate left-right determination. Nature 427(6970):121–128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carvalho MC 2016. Practical Laboratory Automation. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Shankar S, Srivastava RK (eds) 2012. Nutrition, Diet and Cancer. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bujok P, Tvrdík J 2012. Parallel Migration Model Employing Various Adaptive Variants of Differential Evolution. In Rutkowski L, Korytkowski M, Scherer R, Tadeusiewicz R, Zadeh LA, Zurada JM (eds), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation: International Symposia, SIDE 2012 and EC 2012, Held in Conjunction with ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012. Proceedings, 39–47. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Theological Seminary.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J 2015. Company Patents Design For A Space Elevator, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Just Yet. Accessed from https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-you-shouldnt-get-excited-about-space-elevators-just-yet/, 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 2015. Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295. No. GAO-15-317SP. 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

Shaw RM 2012. The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Mueller B, Rosenberg E 2015 (7 October). Worker Trying to Prevent Vehicle Break-Ins Is Fatally Shot; Police Seek 3 Men. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Percy 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cermeño and Falkowski 2009, Percy 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cermeño and Falkowski 2009)
Three or more authors: (Raya et al. 2004)

About the journal

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