How to format your references using the HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological 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	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

Coyne, J.A., 2006, ‘Comment on “Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 761; author reply 761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bethell, T. & Bergin, E., 2009, ‘Formation and survival of water vapor in the terrestrial planet-forming region’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5960), 1675–1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capozza, R., Barel, I. & Urbakh, M., 2013, ‘Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale’, Scientific reports, 3, 1896.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wawersik, M., Milutinovich, A., Casper, A.L., Matunis, E., Williams, B. & Van Doren, M., 2005, ‘Somatic control of germline sexual development is mediated by the JAK/STAT pathway’, Nature, 436(7050), 563–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xu, Q.A. & Madden, T.L., 2011, Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sacco, G.M. & Tzitzikas, Y. (eds.), 2009, Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search: Theory, Practice, and Experience, vol. 25, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Onori, S., Serrao, L. & Rizzoni, G., 2016, ‘Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle’, in L. Serrao & G. Rizzoni (eds.), Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Energy Management Strategies, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering., pp. 51–63, Springer, London.

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 HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016, Refuelling Japanese Volcano Could Destroy ‘Naples Of The East’ By 2044, 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, 1993, Job Corps Costs and Outcomes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Toler, R.L., 2017, Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site – PhD thesis, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ .

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

Feeney, K., 2008, Learning To Make Cheese By Hand, New York Times, p. NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coyne 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Coyne 2006; Bethell & Bergin 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bethell & Bergin 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wawersik et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
ISSN (print)	0259-9422
ISSN (online)	2072-8050
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