How to format your references using the Literator citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Literator. 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

Tarlinton, D.M., 2014, ‘Immunology: To affinity and beyond’, Nature, 509(7502), 573–574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meissner, A. & Jaenisch, R., 2006, ‘Generation of nuclear transfer-derived pluripotent ES cells from cloned Cdx2-deficient blastocysts’, Nature, 439(7073), 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burkle, L.A., Marlin, J.C. & Knight, T.M., 2013, ‘Plant-pollinator interactions over 120 years: loss of species, co-occurrence, and function’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6127), 1611–1615.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tseng, C.-K., Chen, W.-T., Chen, K.-H., Liu, H.-D., Kang, Y., Na, N. & Lee, M.-C.M., 2013, ‘A self-assembled microbonded germanium/silicon heterojunction photodiode for 25 Gb/s high-speed optical interconnects’, Scientific reports, 3, 3225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Exposito, E. & Diop, C., 2014, Smart SOA Platforms in Cloud Computing Architectures, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Saaty, T.L., 2013, Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, 2nd ed. 2013, vol. 195, Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Raymond-Yakoubian, J., 2016, ‘Conceptual and Institutional Frameworks for Protected Areas, and the Status of Indigenous Involvement: Considerations for the Bering Strait Region of Alaska’, in T.M. Herrmann & T. Martin (eds.), Indigenous Peoples’ Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Arctic, pp. 83–103, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Literator.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015, You Can Get Cautiously Excited About This Fusion Power ‘Breakthrough’, 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, 2001, NASA: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges, 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

Diniega, S., 2010, Modeling aeolian dune and dune field evolution – PhD thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Corkery, M., 2017, Sales Drop at Macy’s Punishes Its Stock, New York Times, p. B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tarlinton 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Meissner & Jaenisch 2006; Tarlinton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Meissner & Jaenisch 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tseng et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Literator
ISSN (print)	0258-2279
ISSN (online)	2219-8237
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