Journal article

This guidance can be used for articles from both print and online journals

To be made up of:

    • 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:

    • 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:

    • 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.