How to format your references using the Studies in Communication Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Communication Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Grünbaum, D. (2011). Ecology. Why did you Lévy? Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6037), 1514–1515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chisholm, J. R., & Kelley, R. (2001). Worms start the reef-building process. Nature, 409(6817), 152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Makovicky, P. J., Apesteguía, S., & Agnolín, F. L. (2005). The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America. Nature, 437(7061), 1007–1011.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chen, H.-T., Padilla, W. J., Zide, J. M. O., Gossard, A. C., Taylor, A. J., & Averitt, R. D. (2006). Active terahertz metamaterial devices. Nature, 444(7119), 597–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodda, H. J. E., & Little, M. A. (2015). Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tarn, T.-J., Chen, S.-B., & Zhou, C. (Eds.). (2007). Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (Vol. 362). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Klein, R., Rome, E., Beyel, C., Linnemann, R., Reinhardt, W., & Usov, A. (2009). Information Modelling and Simulation in Large Interdependent Critical Infrastructures in IRRIIS. In R. Setola & S. Geretshuber (Eds.), Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers (pp. 36–47). 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 Studies in Communication Sciences.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 30). World Trade Center Rescue Workers May Be At Risk Of Early Dementia. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2001). Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information (GAO-01-126SP). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Walters, L. A. (2015). A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Employee Attitudes, Awareness, and Satisfaction with Regard to the University Employee Wellness Program [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Barron, J. (2016, November 19). Donald Trump Hits the Town. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grünbaum, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chisholm & Kelley, 2001; Grünbaum, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Chisholm & Kelley, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Communication Sciences
Abbreviation	Stud. Commun. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1424-4896
Scope	Communication