How to format your references using the Contemporary Islam citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Islam. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Tylianakis, J. M. (2013). Ecology. The global plight of pollinators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6127), 1532–1533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holland, W. L., & Scherer, P. E. (2013). Cell Biology. Ronning after the adiponectin receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6165), 1460–1461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keenan, S. W., Engel, A. S., & Elsey, R. M. (2013). The alligator gut microbiome and implications for archosaur symbioses. Scientific reports, 3, 2877.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lo, S.-T., Lin, S.-W., Wang, Y.-T., Lin, S.-D., & Liang, C.-T. (2014). Spin-orbit-coupled superconductivity. Scientific reports, 4, 5438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi, M. H., & Zimmerman, M. C. (2004). Wastewater Pathogens. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mackey, P. J., Grimsey, E. J., Jones, R. T., & Brooks, G. A. (Eds.). (2016). Celebrating the Megascale: Proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in Honor of David G.C. Robertson. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

McTear, M. (2008). Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother? In L. Dybkjær & W. Minker (Eds.), Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 101–122). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Contemporary Islam.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, February 2). Neglect In Childhood Leaves Marks On Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/neglect-childhood-leaves-marks-brain/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2006). Critical Infrastructure Protection: Progress Coordinating Government and Private Sector Efforts Varies by Sectors’ Characteristics (No. GAO-07-39). Washington, DC: 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

Charles, J.-G. (2017). African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 13). Mets’ Starter Fails to Last 2 Innings, and He May Not Get to Go Any Longer. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tylianakis 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Holland and Scherer 2013; Tylianakis 2013).

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

Two authors: (Holland and Scherer 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lo et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Islam
ISSN (print)	1872-0218
ISSN (online)	1872-0226
Scope	Religious studies Cultural Studies