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

Tolstoy, Eline. 2011. Galaxy evolution. Galactic paleontology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 176–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osterholm, Michael T., and Donald A. Henderson. 2012. Public health and biosecurity. Life sciences at a crossroads: respiratory transmissible H5N1. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 801–802.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alboussière, Thierry, Renaud Deguen, and Mickaël Melzani. 2010. Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation. Nature 466: 744–747.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Achard, Patrick, Hui Cheng, Liesbeth De Grauwe, Jan Decat, Hermien Schoutteten, Thomas Moritz, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Jinrong Peng, and Nicholas P. Harberd. 2006. Integration of plant responses to environmentally activated phytohormonal signals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bromfield, Richard. 2010. Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Skiadas, Christos H., ed. 2010. Advances in Data Analysis: Theory and Applications to Reliability and Inference, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Lifetime Data, and Neural Networks. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Dai, Feng, and Yuan Xu. 2013. Approximation on the Sphere. In Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls, ed. Yuan Xu, 79–103. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. New York, NY: Springer.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. From Great Red Spot To Orange Pimple: Is Jupiter’s Superstorm Finally Blowing Over? IFLScience. IFLScience. October 20.

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. 1988. Bridge Safety: Structural Soundness of the Zilwaukee Bridge. RCED-88-96. 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

HaMai, Truc. 2014. The “other” women: What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges? 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

Reisner, Neil, Sheri Fink, and Vivian Yee. 2017. 8 Die After Power Fails at Care Center in Florida. New York Times, September 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tolstoy 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Tolstoy 2011; Osterholm and Henderson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Osterholm and Henderson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Achard et al. 2006)

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