How to format your references using the Currents in Biblical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Currents in Biblical Research. 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

Smaglik, P.

2000 ‘Varmus tells Congress to grasp thorny policy issues’, Nature 404 (6778) (April 6): 530

A journal article with 2 authors

Stuiver, M. H., and J. H. Custers

2001 ‘Engineering disease resistance in plants’, Nature 411 (6839) (June 14): 865–868

A journal article with 3 authors

Nasrallah, M. E., P. Liu, and J. B. Nasrallah

2002 ‘Generation of self-incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by transfer of two S locus genes from A. lyrata’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5579) (July 12): 247–249

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Winter, S. E., P. Thiennimitr, M. G. Winter, B. P. Butler, D. L. Huseby, R. W. Crawford, J. M. Russell, et al.

2010 ‘Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella’, Nature 467 (7314) (September 23): 426–429

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, C.

1998 A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd), January 1

An edited book

Kalmykov, S. N., and M. A. Denecke, ed.

2011 Actinide Nanoparticle Research (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

Teel, M. K.

2016 ‘Strong Start for Families: An Innovative Use of High Fidelity Wraparound with Mothers in Early Recovery from Substance Use Disorders’, in C. J. Shapiro and C. Harper Browne (eds.), Innovative Approaches to Supporting Families of Young Children (Cham: Springer International Publishing): 57–85

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 Currents in Biblical Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D.

2016 Human-Pig ‘Chimeras’ May Provide Vital Transplant Organs, But They Raise Ethical Dilemmas, IFLScience (IFLScience), June 20

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

1971 Review of Administration of Selected Aspects of the Student-Tutor Education Program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), September 22

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowles, A.

2012 The development of a standard of care for competency to stand trial evaluations Doctoral dissertation, (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Leland, J.

2017 ‘Dance Moves, Everywhere’, New York Times, April 7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2000; Stuiver and Custers 2001).

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

Two authors: (Stuiver and Custers 2001)
Three authors: (Nasrallah, Liu, and Nasrallah 2002)
4 or more authors: (Winter et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Currents in Biblical Research
Abbreviation	Curr. Biblic. Res.
ISSN (print)	1476-993X
ISSN (online)	1745-5200
Scope