How to format your references using the Diaspora Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diaspora Studies. 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

Ciochon, Russell L. 2009. “The Mystery Ape of Pleistocene Asia.” Nature 459 (7249): 910–911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reilly, Stephen M., and Thomas D. White. 2003. “Hypaxial Motor Patterns and the Function of Epipubic Bones in Primitive Mammals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5605): 400–402.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Zhonghe, Paul M. Barrett, and Jason Hilton. 2003. “An Exceptionally Preserved Lower Cretaceous Ecosystem.” Nature 421 (6925): 807–814.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shinoda, Takehiro, Haruo Ogawa, Flemming Cornelius, and Chikashi Toyoshima. 2009. “Crystal Structure of the Sodium-Potassium Pump at 2.4 A Resolution.” Nature 459 (7245): 446–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stolarski, T. A., and S. Tobe. 2000. Rolling Contacts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nayak, Richi, and Mohammed J. Zaki, eds. 2006. Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents: First International Workshop, KDXD 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006. Proceedings. Vol. 3915. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liang, Zongsuo, and Wenting Liu. 2015. “A Study on the Cultivation of Danshen.” In Dan Shen (Salvia Miltiorrhiza) in Medicine: Volume 1. Biology and Chemistry, edited by Xijun Yan, 49–68. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Diaspora Studies.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Quitting Smoking Reverses Dopamine Deficits In The Brain.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/quitting-smoking-reverses-dopamine-deficits-in-the-brain/.

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. 2013. National Science Foundation: Steps Taken to Improve Contracting Practices, but Opportunities Exist to Do More. GAO-13-292. 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

Miller, Raymond J. 2012. “An Investigation Examining the Perceived Implications of Principal Leadership Changing A Large Comprehensive High School into Smaller Learning Communities.” 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

Eligon, John. 2017. “Australia Through American Eyes.” New York Times, June 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciochon 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ciochon 2009; Reilly and White 2003).

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

Two authors: (Reilly and White 2003)
Three authors: (Zhou, Barrett, and Hilton 2003)
4 or more authors: (Shinoda et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Diaspora Studies
ISSN (print)	0973-9572
ISSN (online)	0976-3457
Scope	History Geography, Planning and Development Demography Political Science and International Relations