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

Plasterk, Ronald H. A. 2002. “RNA Silencing: The Genome’s Immune System.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5571): 1263–1265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, J. P., Jr, and W. N. Zagotta. 2001. “Rotational Movement during Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Opening.” Nature 412 (6850): 917–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wieczorek, Mark A., Benjamin P. Weiss, and Sarah T. Stewart. 2012. “An Impactor Origin for Lunar Magnetic Anomalies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6073): 1212–1215.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tang, Kaihao, Yunhui Zhang, Min Yu, Xiaochong Shi, Tom Coenye, Peter Bossier, and Xiao-Hua Zhang. 2013. “Evaluation of a New High-Throughput Method for Identifying Quorum Quenching Bacteria.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, Jack J., Patricia Phillips, and Al Pulliam. 2014. Measuring ROI in Environment, Health, and Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mišćenić, Emilia, and Aurélien Raccah, eds. 2016. Legal Risks in EU Law: Interdisciplinary Studies on Legal Risk Management and Better Regulation in Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Aboulaich, Abdelmaula, Florent Robert, Pierre Emmanuel Lippens, Laurent Aldon, Josette Olivier-Fourcade, Patrick Willmann, and Jean-Claude Jumas. 2007. “In Situ 119Sn Mössbauer Spectroscopy Study of Sn-Based Electrode Materials.” In ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) Held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005 Volume II (Part III–V/V), edited by P-E Lippens, J-C Jumas, and J-M R. Génin, 733–738. 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 Diaspora Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “India Ratifies Paris Climate Agreement, Bringing World Closer To A Binding Deal.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/india-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement-bringing-world-closer-to-a-binding-deal/.

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. 2004. Computer-Based Patient Records: Subcommittee Questions Concerning VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of Health Data. GAO-04-691R. 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

Bryant, Terrence Lamar. 2017. “The Influence of High School Preparation on Black Male Students’ Ability to Succeed at the Post-Secondary Level.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Zajac, Mary K. 2014. “Stars of Their Own Screenplay.” New York Times, April 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Plasterk 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Plasterk 2002; Johnson and Zagotta 2001).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Zagotta 2001)
Three authors: (Wieczorek, Weiss, and Stewart 2012)
4 or more authors: (Tang et al. 2013)

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