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

Ruse, Michael. 2003. “Perceptions in Science. Is Evolution a Secular Religion?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5612): 1523–1524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson, R., and D. Pauly. 2001. “Systematic Distortions in World Fisheries Catch Trends.” Nature 414 (6863): 534–536.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schroder, Kate, Rongbin Zhou, and Jurg Tschopp. 2010. “The NLRP3 Inflammasome: A Sensor for Metabolic Danger?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5963): 296–300.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mikołajczyk-Stecyna, Joanna, Aleksandra Korcz, Marcin Gabriel, Katarzyna Pawlaczyk, Grzegorz Oszkinis, and Ryszard Słomski. 2013. “Risk Factors in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and in Polish Population Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease and Differences between Them [Corrected].” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair, Thomas H. 2016. Energy Production Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Karthik, Mvk. 2012. Computational Strategies Towards Improved Protein Function Prophecy of Xylanases from Thermomyces Lanuginosus. Edited by Pratyoosh Shukla. SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hayman, Carolyn. 2014. “Maximizing the Potential of Locally Led Peacebuilding in Conflict Affected States.” In Is Local Beautiful?: Peacebuilding between International Interventions and Locally Led Initiatives, edited by Sara Hellmüller and Martina Santschi, 65–77. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace. 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 Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1986. Defaulted Student Loans: Guaranty Agencies’ Collection Practices and Procedures. HRD-86-114BR. 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

Sweeney, Mark T. 2010. “Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Treatment Outcomes: Wediko Children’s Services Short-Term Residential Treatment Program.” 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2008. “Justices Add More Cases On Job Discrimination.” New York Times, January 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruse 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ruse 2003; Watson and Pauly 2001).

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

Two authors: (Watson and Pauly 2001)
Three authors: (Schroder, Zhou, and Tschopp 2010)
4 or more authors: (Mikołajczyk-Stecyna et al. 2013)

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