How to format your references using the European Journal for Security Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal for Security Research. 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

Anthes E (2014) Treatment: Marginal gains. Nature 508:S54-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Hochedlinger K, Jaenisch R (2002) Monoclonal mice generated by nuclear transfer from mature B and T donor cells. Nature 415:1035–1038

A journal article with 3 authors

Bouvier F, Dogbo O, Camara B (2003) Biosynthesis of the food and cosmetic plant pigment bixin (annatto). Science 300:2089–2091

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Niittylä T, Messerli G, Trevisan M, et al (2004) A previously unknown maltose transporter essential for starch degradation in leaves. Science 303:87–89

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan W (2014) Crop Variety Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Leicht KT, Jenkins JC (eds) (2010) Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Han P, Yang J, Shang C, Chang C-P (2016) Chromatin Remodeling in Heart Failure. In: Backs J, McKinsey TA (eds) Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 103–124

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 European Journal for Security Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Cassini Just Snapped Some Amazing New Images Of Saturn’s Rings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-just-snapped-some-amazing-new-images-of-saturns-rings/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1978) Survey of the Harrison County Head Start Program, Gulfport, Mississippi. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Machula M (2014) Understanding and Predicting Teachers’ Knowledge of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Crow K (2001) A 26-Year Dispute Over a Tower, With No End in Sight. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anthes 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hochedlinger and Jaenisch 2002; Anthes 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hochedlinger and Jaenisch 2002)
Three or more authors: (Niittylä et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Security Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Secur. Res.
ISSN (print)	2365-0931
ISSN (online)	2364-1695
Scope

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