How to format your references using the Thinking Skills and Creativity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thinking Skills and Creativity. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schadt, E. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. First steps on a long road. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alonso, J. M., & Stepanova, A. N. (2004). The ethylene signaling pathway. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1513–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden, B. Y., Pearson, J. M., & Platt, M. L. (2009). Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5929), 948–950.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Workman, C. T., Mak, H. C., McCuine, S., Tagne, J.-B., Agarwal, M., Ozier, O., Begley, T. J., Samson, L. D., & Ideker, T. (2006). A systems approach to mapping DNA damage response pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5776), 1054–1059.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casadella, V., Liu, Z., & Uzunidis, D. (2015). Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dobkin, P. L. (2016). Mindful Medical Practitioners: A Guide for Clinicians and Educators (C. S. Hassed, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenberg, J. A. (2006). International Legal Developments Protecting the Autonomy Rights of Sexual Minorities: Who Should Determine the Appropriate Treatment for an Intersex Infant? In S. E. Sytsma (Ed.), Ethics and Intersex (pp. 87–101). Springer Netherlands.

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 Thinking Skills and Creativity.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, September 12). Quasars Not So Complicated. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/quasars-not-so-complicated/

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. (2014). Secure Flight: TSA Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms (GAO-14-647). 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

Hoang, T. T. (2017). Acoustic and Image Vehicle Classification System [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, June 25). World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: Journalists Sentenced. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schadt, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Alonso & Stepanova, 2004; Schadt, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Alonso & Stepanova, 2004)
Three authors: (Hayden et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Workman et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Thinking Skills and Creativity
Abbreviation	Think. Skills Creat.
ISSN (print)	1871-1871
Scope	Education