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 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

Matyjaszewski, K. (2011). Chemistry. Architecturally complex polymers with controlled heterogeneity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1104–1105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernst, M. O., & Banks, M. S. (2002). Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature, 415(6870), 429–433.

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Matteo, T., Springel, V., & Hernquist, L. (2005). Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies. Nature, 433(7026), 604–607.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Holtmaat, A., Wilbrecht, L., Knott, G. W., Welker, E., & Svoboda, K. (2006). Experience-dependent and cell-type-specific spine growth in the neocortex. Nature, 441(7096), 979–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya, S., Hameed, M. F. O., & Areed, N. F. F. (2016). Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Danelutto, M. (2008). Making Grids Work: Proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop on Programming Models Grid and P2P System Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments 12-13 June 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (P. Fragopoulou & V. Getov, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

McLeod, K., Mansi, T., Sermesant, M., Pongiglione, G., & Pennec, X. (2013). Statistical Shape Analysis of Surfaces in Medical Images Applied to the Tetralogy of Fallot Heart. In F. Cazals & P. Kornprobst (Eds.), Modeling in Computational Biology and Biomedicine: A Multidisciplinary Endeavor (pp. 165–191). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, May 22). Researcher Faces Jail For Sharing An Academic Thesis Online. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/researcher-faces-jail-sharing-academic-thesis-online/

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. (1999). National Airspace System: Observations on American Airlines’ 1997 Study of Future Air Traffic Congestion (RCED-99-66R). 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

Mycroft, D. (2012). Minorities in leadership and financial performance of their Fortune 500 companies [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, October 11). German Hand Helps to Bolster American Identity One Change at a Time. New York Times, B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Matyjaszewski, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ernst & Banks, 2002; Matyjaszewski, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ernst & Banks, 2002)
Three authors: (Di Matteo et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Holtmaat et al., 2006)

About the journal

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