How to format your references using the Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology. 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

Miller, Richard A. “Biomedicine. The Anti-Aging Sweepstakes: Catalase Runs for the ROSes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308, no. 5730 (June 24, 2005): 1875–76.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba, Johnan A. R., and Edward A. Berger. “Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Fusion-Entry Receptor: Cystine Transporter XCT.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5769 (March 31, 2006): 1921–24.

A journal article with 3 authors

Camilleri, Elizabeth, Peter P. Rohde, and Jason Twamley. “Quantum Walks with Tuneable Self-Avoidance in One Dimension.” Scientific Reports 4 (April 25, 2014): 4791.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Albertini, Aurélie A. V., Amy K. Wernimont, Tadeusz Muziol, Raimond B. G. Ravelli, Cedric R. Clapier, Guy Schoehn, Winfried Weissenhorn, and Rob W. H. Ruigrok. “Crystal Structure of the Rabies Virus Nucleoprotein-RNA Complex.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5785 (July 21, 2006): 360–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curioso, Andrew, Ronald Bradford, and Patrick Galbraith. Expert PHP and MySQL®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Herrera, Francisco. Multilabel Classification: Problem Analysis, Metrics and Techniques. Edited by Francisco Charte, Antonio J. Rivera, and María J. del Jesus. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Pinheiro, Alexandre, Edna Dias Canedo, Rafael Timóteo de Sousa, and Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque. “A Proposed Protocol for Periodic Monitoring of Cloud Storage Services Using Trust and Encryption.” In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016: 16th International Conference, Beijing, China, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, edited by Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, Carmelo M. Torre, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Elena Stankova, and Shangguang Wang, 45–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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 Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Newly Developed Artificial Limb Lets Amputees ‘Feel.’” IFLScience. IFLScience, June 8, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newly-developed-artificial-limb-lets-amputees-feel/.

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. “Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 1, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters, Arisa Shibagaki. “Bread and Washoku: Unveiling Japanese Identity Through the Necessity of Bread Baking.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2017.

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

Corkery, Michael, and Mary Williams Walsh. “In Puerto Rico, Debt Is Called ‘Not Payable.’” New York Times, June 29, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology
ISSN (print)	0039-338X
ISSN (online)	1502-7791
Scope	Religious studies