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

Risch, N. J. “Searching for Genetic Determinants in the New Millennium.” Nature 405, no. 6788 (June 15, 2000): 847–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elmquist, Joel K., and Jeffrey S. Flier. “Neuroscience. The Fat-Brain Axis Enters a New Dimension.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304, no. 5667 (April 2, 2004): 63–64.

A journal article with 3 authors

Draghici, Cristian, Tina Wang, and David A. Spiegel. “Concise Total Synthesis of Glucosepane.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, no. 6258 (October 16, 2015): 294–98.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Piel, Frédéric B., Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil, Oscar A. Nyangiri, Peter W. Gething, Samir Bhatt, Thomas N. Williams, David J. Weatherall, and Simon I. Hay. “The Distribution of Haemoglobin C and Its Prevalence in Newborns in Africa.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moritz, Frederick G. Electromechanical Motion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Schulz, Horst D., and Matthias Zabel, eds. Marine Geochemistry. 2nd revised, updated and extended edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanković, Srdjan, Irena Orović, and Ervin Sejdić. “Digital Video.” In Multimedia Signals and Systems, edited by Irena Orović and Ervin Sejdić, 199–231. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2012.

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. “Ancient Beetle Discovered To Be Oldest Example Of Ant Social Parasitism.” IFLScience. IFLScience, October 3, 2014.

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. “Seclusions and Restraints: Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 19, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beahm, Austin Christopher. “The Political Ecology of Tourism Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Recovering The Kursk.” New York Times, October 18, 2001.

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