How to format your references using the South African Theological Seminary citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Theological Seminary (SATS). 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 2002. Empire building: Vienna. Nature 416(6881):4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyman AA, Simons K 2012. Cell biology. Beyond oil and water--phase transitions in cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6098):1047–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Causier B, Kieffer M, Davies B 2002. Plant biology. MADS-box genes reach maturity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5566):275–276.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ek M, Engblom D, Saha S, Blomqvist A, Jakobsson PJ, Ericsson-Dahlstrand A 2001. Inflammatory response: pathway across the blood-brain barrier. Nature 410(6827):430–431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Menn M 2012. Instrumentation and Metrology in Oceanography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hummel KA, Hlavacs H, Gansterer W (eds) 2011. Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges: IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 International Workshop, PERFORM 2010, in Honor of Günter Haring on the Occasion of His Emeritus Celebration, Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Subrahmanyam K, Šmahel D 2011. Constructing Identity Online: Identity Exploration and Self-Presentation. In Smahel D (ed), Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development, 59–80. New York, NY: 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 Theological Seminary.

Blog post

Carpineti A 2016. An Unseen Asteroid Passed Very Close To Earth Last Sunday. Accessed from https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-unseen-asteroid-passed-very-close-to-earth-last-sunday/, 2018-10-30.

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 2012. Highway Infrastructure: Federal-State Partnership Produces Benefits and Poses Oversight Risks. No. GAO-12-474. 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

DeVito MA 2015. Facebook Family Values: A News Feed Hierarchy Of Needs. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Zecher LK 2013 (13 January). The Path to Publishing. New York Times, BU8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002, Hyman and Simons 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hyman and Simons 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ek et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Theological Seminary
ISSN (print)	1996-8167
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