How to format your references using the South African Journal of Communication Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of Communication Disorders (SAJCD). 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

Gaston, K. J. (2013). Sustainability: A green light for efficiency. Nature, 497(7451), 560–561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Besenbacher, F., & Nørskov, J. K. (2000). SURFACE SCIENCE: How to Power a Nanomotor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5496), 1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian, B. C., Clarkson, J. R., & Zwier, T. S. (2004). Direct measurement of energy thresholds to conformational isomerization in tryptamine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1169–1173.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Fogassi, L., Ferrari, P. F., Gesierich, B., Rozzi, S., Chersi, F., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005). Parietal lobe: from action organization to intention understanding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5722), 662–667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kwok, S. (2011). Organic Matter in the Universe. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Dellacherie, C. (2014). Inverse M-Matrices and Ultrametric Matrices (S. Martinez & J. San Martin, Eds.; Vol. 2118). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hassell, J., Aleman-Meza, B., & Arpinar, I. B. (2006). Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text. In I. Cruz, S. Decker, D. Allemang, C. Preist, D. Schwabe, P. Mika, M. Uschold, & L. M. Aroyo (Eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006: 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 44–57). 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 South African Journal of Communication Disorders.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, June 15). Does Tapping A Can Of Fizzy Drink Really Stop It Foaming Over? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/does-tapping-a-can-of-fizzy-drink-really-stop-it-foaming-over/

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. (1993). Airport Improvement Program: Opportunity to Consider FAA’s Role in Meeting Airport System Needs (T-RCED-93-43). 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

Baudy, A. R. (2010). Efficacy of glucocorticoids in muscular dystrophy: Signaling, hormonal activities, and muscle inflammation [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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995, January 25). At the Nation’s Table: Davenport, Calif.; A New-Age Juice Intended For Women. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaston, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Besenbacher & Nørskov, 2000; Gaston, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Besenbacher & Nørskov, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Fogassi et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Communication Disorders
ISSN (print)	0379-8046
ISSN (online)	2225-4765
Scope