How to format your references using the Textual Practice citation style
This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Textual Practice. 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. |
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| 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.
Books and book chapters
Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.
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".
Theses and dissertations
Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.
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.
In-text citations
References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:
This sentence cites two references Kenneth L. Tanaka, ‘Geology and insolation-driven climatic history of Amazonian north polar materials on Mars’, Nature, 437.7061 (13/October 2005), pp. 991–994 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04065]; J. Martin Bollinger Jr and Megan L. Matthews, ‘Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 327.5971 (12/March 2010), pp. 1337–1338..
This sentence cites four references Kenneth L. Tanaka, ‘Geology and insolation-driven climatic history of Amazonian north polar materials on Mars’, Nature, 437.7061 (13/October 2005), pp. 991–994 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04065]; J. Martin Bollinger Jr and Megan L. Matthews, ‘Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 327.5971 (12/March 2010), pp. 1337–1338; Keith Richards-Dinger, Ross S. Stein, and Shinji Toda, ‘Decay of aftershock density with distance does not indicate triggering by dynamic stress’, Nature, 467.7315 (30/September 2010), pp. 583–586 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09402]; Jelte Rozema, Bas van Geel, Lars Olof Björn, Judith Lean, and Sasha Madronich, ‘Paleoclimate. Toward solving the UV puzzle’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296.5573 (31/May 2002), pp. 1621–1622..
About the journal
| Full journal title | Textual Practice |
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| ISSN (print) | 0950-236X |
| ISSN (online) | 1470-1308 |
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