How to format your references using the Contemporary Jewry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Jewry. 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

Burns, Lawrence D. 2013. Sustainable mobility: A vision of our transport future. Nature 497: 181–182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivera, Maria C., and James A. Lake. 2004. The ring of life provides evidence for a genome fusion origin of eukaryotes. Nature 431: 152–155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford, R. A., P. M. Dixon, and J. H. Pechmann. 2001. Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 412: 499–500.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dong, Lingqing, Qi Luo, Kui Cheng, Hui Shi, Qi Wang, Wenjian Weng, and Wei-Qiang Han. 2014. Facet-specific assembly of proteins on SrTiO₃ polyhedral nanocrystals. Scientific reports 4: 5084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, Weiduo. 2015. Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Altman, Erik, and Weisong Shi, ed. 2011. Network and Parallel Computing: 8th IFIP International Conference, NPC 2011, Changsha, China, October 21-23, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 6985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, P. L. 2007. eNOS and nNOS in Stroke. In Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Acute Ischemic Injury and Repair in the Nervous System, ed. Abel Lajtha and Pak H. Chan, 47–63. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Jewry.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. Machines Can Filter Out Chatter In A Crowded Room, Just Like Us. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 10.

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. 2015. Space Acquisitions: GAO Assessment of DOD Responsive Launch Report. GAO-16-156R. 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

Gamez, Tania Elizabeth. 2012. Preventing child maltreatment among children with non-resident fathers: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Wines, Michael. 2017. Justices Face Wisconsin Case That Could Redraw Partisan Political Maps. New York Times, October 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burns 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rivera and Lake 2004; Burns 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rivera and Lake 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Jewry
Abbreviation	Contemp. Jew.
ISSN (print)	0147-1694
ISSN (online)	1876-5165
Scope	History Religious studies Anthropology Cultural Studies