How to format your references using the Translation Studies citation style

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

Ijspeert, Auke J. 2014. “Biorobotics: Using Robots to Emulate and Investigate Agile Locomotion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6206): 196–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmidt, Michael, and Hod Lipson. 2009. “Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5923): 81–85.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown, Michael S., Jin Ye, and Joseph L. Goldstein. 2010. “Medicine. HDL MiR-Ed down by SREBP Introns.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5985): 1495–1496.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Missler, Markus, Weiqi Zhang, Astrid Rohlmann, Gunnar Kattenstroth, Robert E. Hammer, Kurt Gottmann, and Thomas C. Südhof. 2003. “Alpha-Neurexins Couple Ca2+ Channels to Synaptic Vesicle Exocytosis.” Nature 423 (6943): 939–948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wallgren, Anders, and Britt Wallgren. 2014. Register-Based Statistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bucur, Voichita, ed. 2011. Delamination in Wood, Wood Products and Wood-Based Composites. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Yokoi, Hayato, Kohei Matsumura, and Yasuyuki Sumi. 2013. “Visualization of Life Patterns through Deformation of Maps Based on Users’ Movement Data.” In Active Media Technology: 9th International Conference, AMT 2013, Maebashi, Japan, October 29-31, 2013, Proceedings, edited by Tetsuya Yoshida, Gang Kou, Andrzej Skowron, Jiannong Cao, Hakim Hacid, and Ning Zhong, 37–45. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Wild Birds And Humans Talk To Each Other To Team Up And Find Honey.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-birds-and-humans-talk-to-each-other-to-team-up-and-find-honey/.

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. 2009. Federal Lands: Survey of Land Managers’ Perspectives of Off-Highway Vehicle Use (GAO-09-547SP, June 2009), an E-Supplement to GAO-09-509. GAO-09-547SP. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arntson, Jay D. 2015. “Heidegger and Disclosive Rhetoric: Two Divergent Paths in Immanence and Transcendence.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rojas, Rick, and Elizabeth A. Harris. 2015. “Charge of Duct-Tape Assault at a School.” New York Times, October 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ijspeert 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ijspeert 2014; Schmidt and Lipson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Schmidt and Lipson 2009)
Three authors: (Brown, Ye, and Goldstein 2010)
4 or more authors: (Missler et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Translation Studies
ISSN (print)	1478-1700
ISSN (online)	1751-2921
Scope	Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language