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

Scudellari, M. (2014). Drug development: try and try again. Nature, 516(7529), S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vermot, J., & Pourquié, O. (2005). Retinoic acid coordinates somitogenesis and left-right patterning in vertebrate embryos. Nature, 435(7039), 215–220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischle, W., Wang, Y., & Allis, C. D. (2003). Binary switches and modification cassettes in histone biology and beyond. Nature, 425(6957), 475–479.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Maunakea, A. K., Nagarajan, R. P., Bilenky, M., Ballinger, T. J., D’Souza, C., Fouse, S. D., Johnson, B. E., Hong, C., Nielsen, C., Zhao, Y., Turecki, G., Delaney, A., Varhol, R., Thiessen, N., Shchors, K., Heine, V. M., Rowitch, D. H., Xing, X., Fiore, C., … Costello, J. F. (2010). Conserved role of intragenic DNA methylation in regulating alternative promoters. Nature, 466(7303), 253–257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orchin, M., Macomber, R. S., Pinhas, A. R., & Wilson, R. M. (2005). The Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sanford, K., Rogers, T., & Kendrick, M. (Eds.). (2014). Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives for New Times (Vol. 1). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chand, P. (2005). Building India as the Destination for Secure Software Development – Next Wave of Opportunities for the ICT Industry. In S. Jajodia & C. Mazumdar (Eds.), Information Systems Security: First International Conference, ICISS 2005, Kolkata, India, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 49–65). 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

Andrew, E. (2013, December 20). Origin of flowers has been discovered. 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. (1984). Outlook for Expanding the Federal Research in Progress System (RCED-85-15). 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

Bristow, L. W. (2009). There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, August 31). At Play in the Cardboard Jungle. New York Times, MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scudellari, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Scudellari, 2014; Vermot & Pourquié, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Vermot & Pourquié, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Maunakea et al., 2010)

About the journal

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