How to format your references using the East European Jewish Affairs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for East European Jewish Affairs. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Telford, Maximilian J. “Evolution. The Animal Tree of Life.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, no. 6121 (February 15, 2013): 764–66.
A journal article with 2 authors
Varmus, Harold, and Ed Harlow. “Science Funding: Provocative Questions in Cancer Research.” Nature 481, no. 7382 (January 25, 2012): 436–37.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kelley, A. M., X. Michalet, and S. Weiss. “Chemical Physics. Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Comes of Age.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292, no. 5522 (June 1, 2001): 1671–72.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Morris, David G., Xiaozhu Huang, Naftali Kaminski, Yanli Wang, Steven D. Shapiro, Gregory Dolganov, Adam Glick, and Dean Sheppard. “Loss of Integrin Alpha(v)Beta6-Mediated TGF-Beta Activation Causes Mmp12-Dependent Emphysema.” Nature 422, no. 6928 (March 13, 2003): 169–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gostick, Adrian, and Chester Elton. Führen Mit Möhren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2006.
An edited book
Takahashi, Shingo, David Sallach, and Juliette Rouchier, eds. Advancing Social Simulation: The First World Congress. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2007.
A chapter in an edited book
Ellinger, Andrea D., Robert G. Hamlin, Rona S. Beattie, Yu-Lin Wang, and Orla McVicar. “Managerial Coaching as a Workplace Learning Strategy.” In Supporting Workplace Learning: Towards Evidence-Based Practice, edited by Rob F. Poell and Marianne van Woerkom, 71–87. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

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 East European Jewish Affairs.

Blog post
Davis, Josh. “Dark Coloration Might Help Birds Survive On Smaller Islands.” IFLScience. IFLScience, July 25, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dark-coloration-might-help-birds-survive-smaller-islands/.

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. “Air Force ADP: Depot Maintenance System Development Risks Are High.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 25, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Fischer, Brian C. “Toward Understanding Resonant Volcanic Seismic Signals: Modelling Bubbly Flow in Magma.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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
Feeney, Kelly. “Southern Barbecue, Up North.” New York Times, October 10, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titleEast European Jewish Affairs
AbbreviationEast Eur. Jew. Aff.
ISSN (print)1350-1674
ISSN (online)1743-971X
ScopeHistory
Cultural Studies
Political Science and International Relations

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