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

Knight, J. 2001. “Senators Call for Biodefence Boost.” Nature 413 (6855): 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marotzke, Jochem, and Piers M. Forster. 2015. “Forcing, Feedback and Internal Variability in Global Temperature Trends.” Nature 517 (7536): 565–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg, T. J., R. Holzwarth, and S. A. Diddams. 2011. “Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6029): 555–559.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kuroda, Reiko, Bunshiro Endo, Masanori Abe, and Miho Shimizu. 2009. “Chiral Blastomere Arrangement Dictates Zygotic Left-Right Asymmetry Pathway in Snails.” Nature 462 (7274): 790–794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheinfeld, Robert. 2009. Busting Loose from the Business Game. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sawai, Hidefumi, ed. 2011. Biological Functions for Information and Communication Technologies: Theory and Inspiration. Vol. 320. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Das, Anadijiban. 2007. “Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.” In Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics, edited by Anadijiban Das, 121–199. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Dragonflies Hold Turf Wars For Control Of Elephants’ Footprints.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1978. Department of Energy’s Consolidation of Information Processing Activities Needs More Attention. EMD-78-60. 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

Little, Kayla. 2013. “Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: 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

Oestreich, James R. 2016. “Colliding Double Hits of Mozart.” New York Times, December 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2001; Marotzke and Forster 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marotzke and Forster 2015)
Three authors: (Kippenberg, Holzwarth, and Diddams 2011)
4 or more authors: (Kuroda et al. 2009)

About the journal

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