How to format your references using the International Studies in Catholic Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Studies in Catholic Education. 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

Marais, Richard. 2015. “RETROSPECTIVE. Christopher Marshall (1949-2015).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6264): 1040.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bogdanove, Adam J., and Daniel F. Voytas. 2011. “TAL Effectors: Customizable Proteins for DNA Targeting.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6051): 1843–1846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saturno, William A., David Stuart, and Boris Beltrán. 2006. “Early Maya Writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5765): 1281–1283.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki, Yukihiko Hirai, Koichi Miyake, and Takashi Shimada. 2014. “Targeted Gene Transfer into Ependymal Cells through Intraventricular Injection of AAV1 Vector and Long-Term Enzyme Replacement via the CSF.” Scientific Reports 4 (July 2014): 5506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Bodic, Gwenaël. 2005. Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vinken, Henk, Yuko Nishimura, Bruce L. J. White, and Masayuki Deguchi, eds. 2010. Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan: Established and Emerging Repertoires. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Larsen, Erik Hviid, and Else Kay Hoffmann. 2016. “Volume Regulation in Epithelia.” In Ion Channels and Transporters of Epithelia in Health and Disease, edited by Kirk L. Hamilton and Daniel C. Devor, 131–185. Current Topics in Membranes. 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 Studies in Catholic Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Enormous Hole In The Universe May Not Be The Only One.” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 22. https://www.iflscience.com/space/enormous-hole-universe-may-not-be-only-one/.

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. 1990. B-2 Bomber: Contract Structure and Selected Provisions. NSIAD-90-230FS. 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

Rodriguez, Fernando. 2009. “A Historical Analysis of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Sisario, Ben. 2016. “Pentatonix Is No. 1; Michael’s Streams Soar.” New York Times, December 27, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marais 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marais 2015; Bogdanove and Voytas 2011).

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

Two authors: (Bogdanove and Voytas 2011)
Three authors: (Saturno, Stuart, and Beltrán 2006)
4 or more authors: (Yamazaki et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in Catholic Education
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Cathol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1942-2539
ISSN (online)	1942-2547
Scope	Religious studies Education