Journal article
This guidance can be used for articles from both print and online journals
To be made up of:
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- Author (surname followed by initials).
- Year of publication (in round brackets).
- Title of article (in single quotation marks).
- Title of journal (in italics – capitalise first letter of each word in title, except for linking words such as and, of, the, for).
- Issue information, that is, volume (unbracketed) and, where applicable, part number, month, or season (all in round brackets).
- Page reference.
- DOI (if available)
In-text citation: (Skelton, 2011)
Pre-publication Journal Article
If you are referencing an article that has not yet been published, follow the same format as for a standard journal article, and add:
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- To be published in (if stated).
- [Preprint] (in square brackets).
- Available at: URL.
- (Accessed: date).
In-text citation: (Jones, Kree and Rigby, 2014).
Review
To be made up of:
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- Name of the reviewer.
- Year of publication of the review (in round brackets).
- Title of the review (in single quotation marks).
- Review of … (title of work reviewed in italics).
- Creator of work being reviewed,
- Publication details (title in italics).
Creator of work being reviewed’ may refer to an author (book), director (drama) or composer (music).
In-text citation: Stevens (2010)
Reference List Journal Article:
Skelton, A. (2011). ‘Value conflicts in higher education teaching’, Teaching in Higher Education, 17(3), pp.257-268. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2011.611875.
Reference List Pre-publication Journal Article:
Jones, J., Kree, J. and Rigby, P. (2014). ‘Aerobic capacity’. To be published in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research [Preprint]. Available at: http://journals.lww.com/jscr/Abstract/2015 (Accessed: 23 June 2015).
Reference List Review:
Stevens, H. (2010). ‘Biology of birds’. Review of The birds and the bees, by David Bills. Journal of the History of Biology, 50(2), pp.190-92.