How to format your references using the Register Studies citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Recruiters and industry. Microsoft’s European perspective. Nature, 434(7035), 938.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conte, M. H., & Weber, J. C. (2002). Plant biomarkers in aerosols record isotopic discrimination of terrestrial photosynthesis. Nature, 417(6889), 639–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, F., Ding, Z., & Meng, S. (2013). Three-dimensional metal-intercalated covalent organic frameworks for near-ambient energy storage. Scientific Reports, 3, 1882.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Petricevic, L., Kaufmann, U., Domig, K. J., Kraler, M., Marschalek, J., Kneifel, W., & Kiss, H. (2014). Molecular detection of Lactobacillus species in the neovagina of male-to-female transsexual women. Scientific Reports, 4, 3746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Menk, F. W., & Waters, C. L. (2013). Magnetoseismology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Peleg, M., Lavrač, N., & Combi, C. (Eds.). (2011). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobayashi, Y., & Shiotani, T. (2016). Computerized AE Tomography. In M. Ohtsu (Ed.), Innovative AE and NDT Techniques for On-Site Measurement of Concrete and Masonry Structures: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 239-MCM (pp. 47–68). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Register Studies.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, February 3). Ceres’ Ice Volcanoes Might Disappear Over Time. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from IFLScience website: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-ice-volcanoes-might-disappear-over-time/

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. (1998). Medicare: Impact of Changing Transportation Policy for Portable Equipment Is Uncertain (No. HEHS-98-82). 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

Eisenbeiser, C. K. (2012). Parents’ Experience of Involvement in the Lives of Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, September 4). Williams and Kvitova Continue Remarkable Runs to a Showdown. New York Times, p. D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Conte & Weber 2002).

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

Two authors: (Conte & Weber 2002)
Three or more authors: (Petricevic et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Register Studies
ISSN (print)	2542-9477
ISSN (online)	2542-9485
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