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

Caldecott, Keith W. 2014. “Molecular Biology. Ribose--an Internal Threat to DNA.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6168): 260–261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, E. T., and O. B. Toon. 2010. “Fractal Organic Hazes Provided an Ultraviolet Shield for Early Earth.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5983): 1266–1268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen, Christopher J., Clay Tabor, and Joseph D. White. 2015. “CLIMATE CHANGE. Long-Term Climate Forcing by Atmospheric Oxygen Concentrations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6240): 1238–1241.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Ansheng, Richard Jones, Ling Liao, Dean Samara-Rubio, Doron Rubin, Oded Cohen, Remus Nicolaescu, and Mario Paniccia. 2004. “A High-Speed Silicon Optical Modulator Based on a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Capacitor.” Nature 427 (6975): 615–618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park, Sejin, and Georges Guille-Escuret. 2017. Sociobiology vs Socioecology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leigh, Hoyle, and Jon Streltzer, eds. 2015. Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ning, Xiaozhou, Yunju Yan, Kangkang Qu, and Zhilao Li. 2010. “Reliability Analysis on Wing Structures under the Gust Load.” In Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: International Conference, AICI 2010, Sanya, China, October 23-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, edited by Fu Lee Wang, Hepu Deng, Yang Gao, and Jingsheng Lei, 31–37. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “There Is A Rebellious Little Object Orbiting Weirdly Around The Solar System.” 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. DOD Acquisition: Case Study of the Air Force Space Based Space Surveillance System. NSIAD-86-45S-17. 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

Pan, Xueliang. 2008. “Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Eligon, John, and Michael Cooper. 2013. “Blasts at Boston Marathon Kill 3 and Injure 100.” New York Times, April 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caldecott 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Caldecott 2014; Wolf and Toon 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wolf and Toon 2010)
Three authors: (Poulsen, Tabor, and White 2015)
4 or more authors: (Liu et al. 2004)

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