How to format your references using the International Journal of the Classical Tradition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 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

Widera, Artur. 2014. Physics. The advantages of extra entanglement. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 160–161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rashid, Harunur, and Edward A. Boyle. 2007. Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aurelio, Oscar, David H. Hall, and Oliver Hobert. 2002. Immunoglobulin-domain proteins required for maintenance of ventral nerve cord organization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 686–690.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liljegren, S. J., G. S. Ditta, Y. Eshed, B. Savidge, J. L. Bowman, and M. F. Yanofsky. 2000. SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature 404: 766–770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park, Sejin, and Georges Guille-Escuret. 2017. Sociobiology vs Socioecology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Agassi, Joseph. 2016. Beg to Differ: The Logic of Disputes and Argumentation. Edited by Abraham Meidan. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ploussard, Guillaume, Andras Hoznek, Laurent Salomon, Claude C. Abbou, and Alexandre de la Taille. 2011. Retroperitoneoscopic Simple and Radical Nephrectomy. In Retroperitoneal Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery: The Extraperitoneal Approach, ed. Jean V. Joseph and Hitendra R. H. Patel, 49–59. London: 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 Journal of the Classical Tradition.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. Strange “Star Wars” Cockroach With Halo-Like Helmet Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 10.

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. 2016. Aviation Security: TSA Is Taking Steps to Improve Expedited Screening Effectiveness, but Improvements in Screener Oversight Are Needed. GAO-16-707T. 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

Nuñez, Elizabeth M. 2017. Getting H.I.P. with First-Generation College Students: Decolonizing the High Impact Practice Movement. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kanter, James. 2016. As Hopes for European Unity Dim, New E.U. Headquarters Are Glowing. New York Times, December 27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of the Classical Tradition
ISSN (print)	1073-0508
ISSN (online)	1874-6292
Scope