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

Alberts, Bruce. 2007. Obituary: Daniel Koshland (1920-2007). Nature 448: 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conway, Gordon, and Gary Toenniessen. 2003. Agriculture. Science for African food security. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 1187–1188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Browne, John, Alan Tunnacliffe, and Ann Burnell. 2002. Anhydrobiosis: plant desiccation gene found in a nematode. Nature 416: 38.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Thibault, Pierre, Martin Dierolf, Andreas Menzel, Oliver Bunk, Christian David, and Franz Pfeiffer. 2008. High-resolution scanning x-ray diffraction microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 379–382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reinhard, Paul-Gerhard, and Eric Suraud. 2008. Introduction to Cluster Dynamics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Liu, Kung-Chung, and Uday S. Racherla, ed. 2016. Innovation and IPRs in China and India: Myths, Realities and Opportunities. Vol. 4. China-EU Law Series. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mucha, Hans-Joachim. 2014. Pairwise Data Clustering Accompanied by Validation and Visualisation. In German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results, ed. Wolfgang Gaul, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Yasumasa Baba, and Akinori Okada, 47–57. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. Cone Snails Drug Prey With Weaponized Insulin. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 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. 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: Estimated Funding Under the Transportation Empowerment Act. RCED-97-73R. 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

Cheng, Lin. 2003. SiC Thin-Films on Insulating substrates for Robust MEMS Applications. Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Barron, James. 2017. In East Hampton, an Airport Is Viewed as a Roaring, Round-the-Clock Nuisance. New York Times, July 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alberts 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Conway and Toenniessen 2003; Alberts 2007).

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

Two authors: (Conway and Toenniessen 2003)
Three or more authors: (Thibault et al. 2008)

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