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

McLaren A (2001) Ethical and social considerations of stem cell research. Nature 414:129–131

A journal article with 2 authors

Seddon N, Bearpark T (2003) Observation of the inverse Doppler effect. Science 302:1537–1540

A journal article with 3 authors

Fox CG, Chadwick WW Jr, Embley RW (2001) Direct observation of a submarine volcanic eruption from a sea-floor instrument caught in a lava flow. Nature 412:727–729

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Parman SW, Kurz MD, Hart SR, Grove TL (2005) Helium solubility in olivine and implications for high 3He/4He in ocean island basalts. Nature 437:1140–1143

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry WC (2009) Introduction to Real Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gertsbakh I (2011) Network Reliability and Resilience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Reimair F, Teufl P, Zefferer T (2016) CrySIL: Bringing Crypto to the Modern User. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, Majchrzak TA, Turk Ž (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 70–90

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

Andrew E (2014) Trouble strikes China’s lunar rover, Yutu. 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 (1977) Status of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project. 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

Chotkevys DL (2009) A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Crow K (2001) Survivors of the Winds of Change. New York Times 143

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McLaren 2001).
This sentence cites two references (McLaren 2001; Seddon and Bearpark 2003).

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

Two authors: (Seddon and Bearpark 2003)
Three or more authors: (Parman et al. 2005)

About the journal

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