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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hoagland M. Enter transfer RNA. Nature 2004; 431:249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins CF, Linton KJ. Structural biology. The xyz of ABC transporters. Science 2001; 293:1782–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold M, Elliott T, Moorbath S. The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature 2011; 477:195–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stickley CE, St John K, Koç N, Jordan RW, Passchier S, Pearce RB, Kearns LE. Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris. Nature 2009; 460:376–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanders S. Seizures in Dogs and Cats. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Wieder RK, Vitt DH, editors. Boreal Peatland Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Verdonschot PFM. Evaluation of the use of Water Framework Directive typology descriptors, reference sites and spatial scale in macroinvertebrate stream typology. In: Furse MT, Hering D, Brabec K, Buffagni A, Sandin L, Verdonschot PFM, editors. The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. page 39–58.

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

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule Arrives At ISS For First Time In Seven Months. IFLScience2017;

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. Space Shuttle: Need to Sustain Launch Risk Assessment Process Improvements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayberry DS. Total Relaxation Center, LLC. 2017;

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

Kolomatsky M. International Rents Per Square Foot. New York Times2017; :RE2.

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
Scope