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

Stratt, Richard M. 2008. “Chemistry. Nonlinear Thinking about Molecular Energy Transfer.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5897): 1789–1790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hansen, John D., and Justin Reich. 2015. “Democratizing Education? Examining Access and Usage Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6265): 1245–1248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muir, G., C. C. Fleming, and C. Schlötterer. 2000. “Species Status of Hybridizing Oaks.” Nature 405 (6790): 1016.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rucker, Robert, David Storms, Annemarie Sheets, Eskouhie Tchaparian, and Andrea Fascetti. 2005. “Biochemistry: Is Pyrroloquinoline Quinone a Vitamin?” Nature 433 (7025): E10-1; discussion E11-2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shick, Paul L. 2007. Topology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Park, James J. (jong Hyuk), Shu-Ching Chen, Joon-Min Gil, and Neil Y. Yen, eds. 2014. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Vol. 308. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Haraty, Ramzi A., and Sally Massalkhy. 2013. “UPP+: A Flexible User Privacy Policy for Social Networking Services.” In Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks, edited by Richard Chbeir and Bechara Al Bouna, 139–155. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Vienna: 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 Diaspora Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “After Years Of Conflict, Huge Project Could Help Scientists Decipher The Brain.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/after-years-conflict-huge-project-could-help-scientists-decipher-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. 1993. Transportation: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Maritime Industry. T-RCED-93-24. 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

Tzillah, Aisha. 2009. “The Emissions of Selected Air Pollutants from Biodiesel Fuel Usage.” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Yablonsky, Linda. 2008. “NOW SHOWING | A MOVABLE FEAST.” New York Times, December 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stratt 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Stratt 2008; Hansen and Reich 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hansen and Reich 2015)
Three authors: (Muir, Fleming, and Schlötterer 2000)
4 or more authors: (Rucker et al. 2005)

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