How to format your references using the Demography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Demography. 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	Download the output style file
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

Amelino-Camelia, G. (2007). Theoretical physics: walk the Planck. Nature, 448(7151), 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaeberlein, M., & Kapahi, P. (2009). Cell signaling. Aging is RSKy business. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5949), 55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sang, L., Coller, H. A., & Roberts, J. M. (2008). Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1095–1100.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choudhury, D., Suzuki, T., Tokura, Y., & Taguchi, Y. (2014). Tuning structural instability toward enhanced magnetocaloric effect around room temperature in MnCo(1-x)Zn(x)Ge. Scientific reports, 4, 7544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Egan, W. F. (2011). Advanced Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kleinbaum, D. G. (2012). Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text, Third Edition. (M. Klein, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goto, K. (2007). Differentiation and identification of Alicyclobacillus species. In A. Yokota, T. Fujii, & K. Goto (Eds.), Alicyclobacillus: Thermophilic Acidophilic Bacilli (pp. 79–91). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Demography.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, February 19). How Sex Keeps The Species Healthy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-sex-keeps-species-healthy/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1995). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Maneuver System Schedule Includes Unnecessary Risk (No. NSIAD-95-161). 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

Yasa, S. R. (2017). Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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, L. (2006, July 9). His Hipness, John G. Roberts. New York Times, p. WK7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amelino-Camelia 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Amelino-Camelia 2007; Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kaeberlein and Kapahi 2009)
Three or more authors: (Choudhury et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Demography
Abbreviation	Demography
ISSN (print)	0070-3370
ISSN (online)	1533-7790
Scope	Demography