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

Nibbering, Erik T. J. 2014. “Imaging Techniques. Low-Energy Electron Diffraction at Ultrafast Speeds.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6193): 137–138.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis, Simon L., and Mark A. Maslin. 2015. “Defining the Anthropocene.” Nature 519 (7542): 171–180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Inaba, Masafumi, Hiroaki Yamanaka, and Shigeru Kondo. 2012. “Pigment Pattern Formation by Contact-Dependent Depolarization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6069): 677.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dou, Dengfeng, Jewn Giew Park, Sandeep Rana, Benjamin J. Madden, Haobo Jiang, and Yuan-Ping Pang. 2013. “Novel Selective and Irreversible Mosquito Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors for Controlling Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 1068.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanby, Michael. 2013. No God, No Science? Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Kompella, Uday B., and Henry F. Edelhauser, eds. 2011. Drug Product Development for the Back of the Eye. Vol. 2. AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Hayman, Peter, and Michael McCarthy. 2013. “Irrigation and Drought in a Southern Australian Climate That Is Arid, Variable, and Changing.” In Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective, edited by Kurt Schwabe, Jose Albiac, Jeffery D. Connor, Rashid M. Hassan, and Liliana Meza González, 81–99. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “How Cocaine Alters The Brain.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cocaine-alters-brain-make-relapse-more-likely/.

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. 2001. Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. GAO-01-595T. 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

Tegtmeier, Tracy. 2009. “Science-Related Attitudes of Urban Middle School Students.” 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. 2006. “Arts, Briefly; Kremlin Museum Grows.” New York Times, March 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nibbering 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nibbering 2014; Lewis and Maslin 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Maslin 2015)
Three authors: (Inaba, Yamanaka, and Kondo 2012)
4 or more authors: (Dou et al. 2013)

About the journal

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