How to format your references using the International Critical Thought citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Critical Thought. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith, Richard. 2012. “Why a Macroeconomic Perspective Is Critical to the Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6101): 1501–1503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blume-Jensen, P., and T. Hunter. 2001. “Oncogenic Kinase Signalling.” Nature 411 (6835): 355–365.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnold, Kathryn E., Ian P. F. Owens, and N. Justin Marshall. 2002. “Fluorescent Signaling in Parrots.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5552): 92.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rivlin, Michal, Judith Horev, Ilan Tsarfaty, and Gil Navon. 2013. “Molecular Imaging of Tumors and Metastases Using Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI.” Scientific Reports 3 (October 2013): 3045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tannenbaum, Lawrence V. 2013. Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gribble, Gordon W., ed. 2010. Heterocyclic Scaffolds II: Reactions and Applications of Indoles. Vol. 26. Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gordon, Judy F., and Robert L. Kramm. 2014. “Clinical Trials for IOP-Lowering Devices to Support an FDA Premarket Submission.” In Surgical Innovations in Glaucoma, edited by John R. Samples and Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed, 61–66. New York, NY: Springer.

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 International Critical Thought.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “Giant Craters Created By Enormous Seafloor Methane Explosions From The Last Ice Age.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 2.

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. 1975. Administration of the Emergency School Aid Act by OE. B-164031(1). Washington, DC: 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

Frost, Daniel C. 2009. “Quantitative Correlational Study of Communication Satisfaction Related to Organizational Proximity and Face-to-Face Communication.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

David Goodman, J. 2017. “Police Issue Fewer Tickets for Minor Offenses Such as Public Urination.” New York Times, October 20, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Smith 2012; Blume-Jensen and Hunter 2001).

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

Two authors: (Blume-Jensen and Hunter 2001)
Three authors: (Arnold, Owens, and Marshall 2002)
4 or more authors: (Rivlin et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Critical Thought
Abbreviation	Int. Crit. Thought
ISSN (print)	2159-8282
ISSN (online)	2159-8312
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