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

Bigot B (2015) Nuclear physics: pull together for fusion. Nature 522:149–151

A journal article with 2 authors

Nahrendorf M, Swirski FK (2015) Immunology. Neutrophil-macrophage communication in inflammation and atherosclerosis. Science 349:237–238

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller CJ, Nichol RC, Batuski DJ (2001) Acoustic oscillations in the early universe and today. Science 292:2302–2303

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Avdoshenko SM, Koskinen P, Sevinçli H, et al (2013) Topological signatures in the electronic structure of graphene spirals. Sci Rep 3:1632

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz RA, Carew MG, Maksimenko T (2010) Micro Markets Workbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Blande JD, Glinwood R (eds) (2016) Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Alberti SJMM (2016) A Pathological Pot. In: Craciun A, Schaffer S (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 43–45

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

Fang J (2014) Invaders Drove Lizards to Evolve Stickier Feet in Just 10 Years. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/invaders-drove-lizards-evolve-stickier-feet-just-10-years/. 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 (1990) Information Resources: Problems Persist in Justice’s ADP Management and Operations. 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

Beattie LJ (2013) Meeting the Needs of Low Income Students. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Von Aue M (2017) A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly.’ New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bigot 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bigot 2015; Nahrendorf and Swirski 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nahrendorf and Swirski 2015)
Three or more authors: (Avdoshenko et al. 2013)

About the journal

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