How to format your references using the Research in Dance Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Dance 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	Download the output style file
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. 2000. “And Sets up a Body to Oversee Trials.” Nature 405 (6787): 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berry, Richard M., and Judith P. Armitage. 2008. “Microbiology. How Bacteria Change Gear.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5883): 1599–1600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoskinson, E., R. E. Packard, and Thomas M. Haard. 2005. “Oscillatory Motion: Quantum Whistling in Superfluid Helium-4.” Nature 433 (7024): 376.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stegman, Dave R., A. Mark Jellinek, Stephen A. Zatman, John R. Baumgardner, and Mark A. Richards. 2003. “An Early Lunar Core Dynamo Driven by Thermochemical Mantle Convection.” Nature 421 (6919): 143–146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeMaris, Alfred. 2004. Regression with Social Data: Modeling Continuous and Limited Response Variables. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Colom, José-Manuel, and Jörg Desel, eds. 2013. Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency: 34th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2013, Milan, Italy, June 24-28, 2013. Proceedings. Vol. 7927. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuasa, Shinsuke. 2016. “Cardiac Arrhythmia Modelling Using iPS Cells.” In Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling, edited by Keiichi Fukuda, 45–51. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Research in Dance Education.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Your Musical Taste Is Culturally Programmed, Not Innate.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 13. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/your-musical-taste-is-culturally-programmed-not-innate/.

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. 2015. Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities. GAO-15-389T. 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

Kurum, Mehmet. 2009. “L-Band Estimation of Forest Canopy Attenuation by a Time-Domain Analysis of Radar Backscatter Response.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Dynarski, Susan. 2016. “America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Ask Australia.” New York Times, July 9, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2000; Berry and Armitage 2008).

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

Two authors: (Berry and Armitage 2008)
Three authors: (Hoskinson, Packard, and Haard 2005)
4 or more authors: (Stegman et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Dance Education
Abbreviation	Res. Dance Educ.
ISSN (print)	1464-7893
ISSN (online)	1470-1111
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education