How to format your references using the In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi. 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

Layard, R., 2010, ‘Economics. Measuring subjective well-being’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5965), 534–535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gollub, J.P. & Cross, M.C., 2000, ‘Chaos in space and time’, Nature, 404(6779), 710–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buhr, E.D., Yoo, S.-H. & Takahashi, J.S., 2010, ‘Temperature as a universal resetting cue for mammalian circadian oscillators’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 379–385.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strong, A., Chisholm, S., Miller, C. & Cullen, J., 2009, ‘Ocean fertilization: time to move on’, Nature, 461(7262), 347–348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perl, J. & DeMark, T.R., 2010, DeMark Indicators, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kavallaris, M. (ed.), 2012, Cytoskeleton and Human Disease, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Barkalov, A. & Titarenko, L., 2008, ‘Synthesis of compositional microprogram control units with code sharing’, in A. Barkalov & L. Titarenko (eds.), Logic Synthesis for Compositional Microprogram Control Units, Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering., pp. 99–135, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015, This Font Simulates What It’s Like To Have Dyslexia, 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, 1999, District of Columbia Public Schools: Audit Confirms Reasonableness of Enrollment Count, but Report’s Presentation Is Unclear, 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

Leonard Puppa, E.L., 2010, Duration of case management: Correlation with Medicaid pediatric patient outcomes – PhD thesis, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Billard, M., 2010, It’s Good to Have Best Sellers, New York Times, p. E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Layard 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gollub & Cross 2000; Layard 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gollub & Cross 2000)
Three or more authors: (Strong et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	In die Skriflig / In Luce Verbi
ISSN (print)	2305-0853
ISSN (online)	1018-6441
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