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

Mayer-Schönberger V 2009. Sociology. Can we reinvent the Internet? Science (New York, N.Y.) 325(5939):396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis A, Tomlinson I 2012. Cancer. The utility of mouse models in post-GWAS research. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338(6112):1301–1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao M, Kong L, Qu H 2014. A systems biology approach to identify intelligence quotient score-related genomic regions, and pathways relevant to potential therapeutic treatments. Scientific reports 4:4176.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Steele IA, Mundell CG, Smith RJ, Kobayashi S, Guidorzi C 2009. Ten per cent polarized optical emission from GRB 090102. Nature 462(7274):767–769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad WM 2009. Understanding Computational Bayesian Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schlegel C 2006. Coordinated Multiuser Communications. Edited by A Grant. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hommes C 2005. Heterogeneous Agent Models: two simple examples. In Lines M (ed), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Economics, 131–164. Vienna: 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

Andrew E 2015. Time Might Be Running Backwards Inside Black Holes. Accessed from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/time-might-be-running-backwards-inside-black-holes-unfinished/, 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. Federal Aviation Administration: Improved Tracking of Results Needed to Provide Confidence in Benefits of Streamlining Activities. No. GAO-15-247. 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

Coleman MJ 2010. Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Marx L 2011 (8 May). Amanda Pekoe and Christopher Lueck. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayer-Schönberger 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mayer-Schönberger 2009, Lewis and Tomlinson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Tomlinson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Steele et al. 2009)

About the journal

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