How to format your references using the Communication Teacher citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Communication Teacher. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Jenkins, A. (2004). Graduate journal: a tough challenge. Nature, 427(6972), 378.

A journal article with 2 authors

Segers, V. F. M., & Lee, R. T. (2008). Stem-cell therapy for cardiac disease. Nature, 451(7181), 937–942.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mongillo, G., Barak, O., & Tsodyks, M. (2008). Synaptic theory of working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1543–1546.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kim, J. V., Kang, S. S., Dustin, M. L., & McGavern, D. B. (2009). Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis. Nature, 457(7226), 191–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golio, M. (2006). Engineering Your Retirement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barceló, D., & Petrovic, M. (Eds.). (2008). Emerging Contaminants from Industrial and Municipal Waste: Removal Technologies: 5 / 5S / 5S/2. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Patwary, M. M. A., Satish, N. R., Sundaram, N., Park, J., Anderson, M. J., Vadlamudi, S. G., Das, D., Pudov, S. G., Pirogov, V. O., & Dubey, P. (2015). Parallel Efficient Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on Multicore Platforms. In J. M. Kunkel & T. Ludwig (Eds.), High Performance Computing: 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, July 12-16, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 48–57). 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 Communication Teacher.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, March 3). Tooth Be Told: Millions Of Years Of Evolutionary History Mark Those Molars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/tooth-be-told-millions-of-years-of-evolutionary-history-mark-those-molars/

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. (1972). Follow up Review of Automatic Data Processing Activities Jet Propulsion Laboratory (B-162407(6)). 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

Mosbacker, H. L. (2008). Control of Electrical Transport Mechanisms at Metal-Zinc Oxide Interfaces by Subsurface Defect Engineering with Remote Plasma Treatment [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Gregory, P. (2013, November 7). This Close to a Killer. New York Times, MM36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jenkins, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Jenkins, 2004; Segers & Lee, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Segers & Lee, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Communication Teacher
ISSN (print)	1740-4622
ISSN (online)	1740-4630
Scope	Education Communication