How to format your references using the Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 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

Lazic, Stanley E. 2013. “Comment on ‘Stress in Puberty Unmasks Latent Neuropathological Consequences of Prenatal Immune Activation in Mice.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6134): 811.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, Mike, and Herb Brody. 2015. “Nature Index 2015 Asia-Pacific.” Nature 519 (7544): S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, Haiqing, Huanhuan Sun, and Xiaoping Sun. 2014. “Survival Improvement by Decade of Patients Aged 0-14 Years with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A SEER Analysis.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4227.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rickert, Mathias, Xinquan Wang, Martin J. Boulanger, Natalia Goriatcheva, and K. Christopher Garcia. 2005. “The Structure of Interleukin-2 Complexed with Its Alpha Receptor.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5727): 1477–1480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoon, Natalie. 2016. Modern Islamic Banking. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pappas, Apostolos, ed. 2011. Nutrition and Skin: Lessons for Anti-Aging, Beauty and Healthy Skin. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Suzdalev, I. P., and Y. V. Maksimov. 2007. “Critical Sizes and Characteristics of Nanoclusters and Nanostructures.” In ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) Held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005, Volume I (Part I–II/V), edited by P-E Lippens, J-C Jumas, and J-M R. Génin, 25–35. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. “Odd States Of Matter: How Three British Theorists Scooped The 2016 Nobel Prize For Physics.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/odd-states-of-matter-how-three-british-theorists-scooped-the-2016-nobel-prize-for-physics/.

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. 2014. Special Education: Additional Federal Actions Could Help Address Unique Challenges of Educating Children in Nursing Homes. GAO-14-585. 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

Ott, Walter H. 2017. “An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Schwirtz, Michael, and Benjamin Mueller. 2017. “Inmate at Rikers Is Missing After Eluding Several Guards.” New York Times, July 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazic 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lazic 2013; May and Brody 2015).

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

Two authors: (May and Brody 2015)
Three authors: (Ma, Sun, and Sun 2014)
4 or more authors: (Rickert et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Abbreviation	Debatte
ISSN (print)	0965-156X
ISSN (online)	1469-3712
Scope	History Cultural Studies