How to format your references using the Translation citation style

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

Lambert JB. Chemistry. A tamed reactive intermediate. Science 2008; 322:1333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benoist C, Mathis D. Mast cells in autoimmune disease. Nature 2002; 420:875–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rojstaczer S, Sterling SM, Moore NJ. Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science 2001; 294:2549–52.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Proskurowski G, Lilley MD, Seewald JS, Früh-Green GL, Olson EJ, Lupton JE, Sylva SP, Kelley DS. Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field. Science 2008; 319:604–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lovejoy DA. Neuroendocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Amsler CD, editor. Algal Chemical Ecology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Argamon S, Koppel M. The Rest of the Story: Finding Meaning in Stylistic Variation. In: Argamon S, Burns K, Dubnov S, editors. The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. page 79–112.

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 Translation.

Blog post

Davis J. Schizophrenia Linked To Smoking. IFLScience2015;

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. Principles and Practices of Auditing in the ADP Systems Environment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hantgan A. Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax. 2013;

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

Greenhouse L. New Jersey and Delaware Take Long-Brewing Boundary Fight to Supreme Court. New York Times2007; :B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Translation
Abbreviation	Translation (Austin)
ISSN (online)	2169-0731
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