How to format your references using the Transition Studies Review citation style

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

Alvarez M (2007) Time for a change. Nature 445:682

A journal article with 2 authors

Livneh U, Zador A (2014) Sensory systems: Sound processing takes motor control. Nature 513:180–181

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen S, Yuzenkova Y, Zenkin N (2013) Mechanism of eukaryotic RNA polymerase III transcription termination. Science 340:1577–1580

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gilbert DT, Killingsworth MA, Eyre RN, Wilson TD (2009) The surprising power of neighborly advice. Science 323:1617–1619

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell LCR, Hodgetts CTJ, Mahoney CPF, Castle N (2010) Disaster Rules. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Sigalov AB (ed) (2008) Multichain Immune Recognition Receptor Signaling: From Spatiotemporal Organization to Human Disease. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wang C, Balch WE (2016) Managing the Adaptive Proteostatic Landscape: Restoring Resilience in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. In: Wanner A, Sandhaus RA (eds) Alpha-1 Antitrypsin: Role in Health and Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–83

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 Transition Studies Review.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) UFOs, Climate Change And Missing Airliners: How To Separate Fact From Fiction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ufos-climate-change-and-missing-airliners-how-to-seperate-fact-from-fiction/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) District of Columbia: D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Faces Major 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

Hill L (2015) Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kitfield J (2017) The Lingering Stench of Torture. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alvarez 2007; Livneh and Zador 2014).

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

Two authors: (Livneh and Zador 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gilbert et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transition Studies Review
ISSN (print)	1614-4007
ISSN (online)	1614-4015
Scope