How to format your references using the Transition Studies Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transition Studies Review. 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

Pizzorusso T (2009) Neuroscience. Erasing fear memories. Science 325:1214–1215

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov R, Littman D (2008) HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature 455:591

A journal article with 3 authors

Lightowlers RN, Taylor RW, Turnbull DM (2015) Mutations causing mitochondrial disease: What is new and what challenges remain? Science 349:1494–1499

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vo M-N, Terrey M, Lee JW, et al (2018) Publisher Correction: ANKRD16 prevents neuron loss caused by an editing-defective tRNA synthetase. Nature 560:E35

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shook JR (2010) The God Debates. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Homma I, Onimaru H, Fukuchi Y (eds) (2010) New Frontiers in Respiratory Control: XIth Annual Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Magin S, Huber F, Herrmann A (2015) Determinants of Teenagers’ Brand Buying Behavior — Development of a Structural Equation Model. In: Moore M, Moore RS (eds) New Meanings for Marketing in a New Millennium: Proceedings of the 2001 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 12–16

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 Transition Studies Review.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Scientists Kick-Start Brain Of Comatose Patient Using Ultrasound. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts. 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

Lange AW (2006) Calcineurin/NFATc1/DSCR1 Pathway Function in Cardiac Valvuloseptal Development and Down Syndrome-Related Phenotypes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Hodara S (2014) Exploring the Continuity of the Radical. New York Times WE9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pizzorusso 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov and Littman 2008; Pizzorusso 2009).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov and Littman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Vo et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transition Studies Review
ISSN (print)	1614-4007
ISSN (online)	1614-4015
Scope