How to format your references using the Theologia Viatorum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theologia Viatorum. 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

Nerenberg, R., 2013, ‘Microbiology. Breathing perchlorate’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Halloran, M.E. & Longini, I.M., Jr, 2006, ‘Public health. Community studies for vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), 615–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E. & Caron, J.-B., 2014, ‘Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale’, Scientific reports, 4, 6704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rink, J.C., Gurley, K.A., Elliott, S.A. & Sánchez Alvarado, A., 2009, ‘Planarian Hh signaling regulates regeneration polarity and links Hh pathway evolution to cilia’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5958), 1406–1410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarowski, C.J., 2004, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mus-Veteau, I. (ed.), 2014, Membrane Proteins Production for Structural Analysis, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdulai, A.-M. & Shamshiry, E., 2014, ‘Natural Resource Endowments and Development Trend in the Muslim World’, in E. Shamshiry (ed.), Linking Sustainable Livelihoods to Natural Resources and Governance: The Scale of Poverty in the Muslim World, pp. 77–130, Springer, Singapore.

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 Theologia Viatorum.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2016, The Hefty Price Of ‘Study Drug’ Misuse On College Campuses, 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, 1980, DOD Still Needs To Clarify Policies for Performing Research and Development for Other Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bardhoshi, G., 2012, The Relationship Between Assignment of Non-Counseling Duties and Burnout Among Professional School Counselors – PhD thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC .

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

Faludi, S., 2016, How Hillary Clinton Met Satan, New York Times, p. SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nerenberg 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Halloran & Longini 2006; Nerenberg 2013).

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

Two authors: (Halloran & Longini 2006)
Three or more authors: (Rink et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Theologia Viatorum
ISSN (print)	0378-4142
ISSN (online)	2664-2980
Scope