How to format your references using the Journal for the Study of the New Testament citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 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

Franson, James D.

2013

‘Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer’, Science 339.6121: 767–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis, K.J., and H.J.B. Birks

2006

‘What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation’, Science 314.5803: 1261–65.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renvall, Ville, Cathy Nangini and Riitta Hari

2014

‘All that glitters is not BOLD: inconsistencies in functional MRI’, Sci. Rep. 4: 3920.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaghloul, Kareem A., Justin A. Blanco, Christoph T. Weidemann, et al.

2009

‘Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards’, Science 323.5920: 1496–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buchenau, Jürgen

2011

The Last Caudillo (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell).

An edited book

Harrison, Scott D., Graham F. Welch and Adam Adler (eds.)

2012

Perspectives on Males and Singing (Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education; Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Lankoski, Petri

2012

‘Computer Games and Emotions’, in John Richard Sageng, Hallvard Fossheim, and Tarjei Mandt Larsen (eds.), The Philosophy of Computer Games (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology; Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands): 39–55.

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 Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Blog post

Fang, Janet

2014

‘Check Out This See-Through Spider’, (IFLScience). Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/check-out-see-through-spider/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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

1970

Selected Contracting and Consulting Activities of the Office of Education (30 June; 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

LeBlanc, Lorinda

2009

Group home placement for children with serious emotional disturbance: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation; California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA).

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

Shpigel, Ben

2017

‘A Contender Reaches a New High’, New York Times, 26 March.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Franson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Franson 2013; Willis and Birks 2006).

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

Two authors: (Willis and Birks 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zaghloul et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for the Study of the New Testament
ISSN (print)	0142-064X
ISSN (online)	1745-5294
Scope