How to format your references using the Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies (GNOS). 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

Heald, Rebecca. 2006. “Cell biology. Serving up a plate of chromosomes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311:343–344.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camasso, Nicole M. and Sanford, Melanie S. 2015. “Design, synthesis, and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions of organometallic nickel(IV) complexes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347:1218–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cottam, J., Paerels, F., and Mendez, M. 2002. “Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines in the X-ray burst spectra of a neutron star.” Nature 420:51–54.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Siok, Wai Ting, Perfetti, Charles A., Jin, Zhen, and Tan, Li Hai. 2004. “Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture.” Nature 431:71–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hellesland, Jostein, Challamel, Noël, Casandjian, Charles, and Lanos, Christophe. 2013. Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Shen, Vincent, ed. 2014. Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy. Dordrecht: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Iltanen, Sanna. 2012. Cellular Automata in Urban Spatial Modelling. Pages 69–84 in Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems. Edited by Alison J. Heppenstall, Andrew T. Crooks, Linda M. See, and Michael Batty. Dordrecht: Dordrecht.

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 Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Climate Change May Be Shifting The Path Of American Tornadoes. 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. 2012. Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Coordination Efforts Could Be Further Strengthened. Washington, DC: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carroll, William E. 2017. Leadership and Emotional Intelligence: Ability-Based and Mixed Models of Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Leadership Performance across Manager Levels. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis, MN.

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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2015. Remembering the Phonograph. New York Times C22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
ISSN (print)	2451-8581
ISSN (online)	2451-859X
Scope