How to format your references using the Feminist Media Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Feminist Media 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

Quirk, Trevor. 2012. “Writers Should Not Fear Jargon.” Nature 487 (7408): 407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Süsstrunk, Roman, and Sebastian D. Huber. 2015. “PHYSICS. Observation of Phononic Helical Edge States in a Mechanical Topological Insulator.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6243): 47–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliveira, Rui F., Luis A. Carneiro, and Adelino V. M. Canário. 2005. “Behavioural Endocrinology: No Hormonal Response in Tied Fights.” Nature 437 (7056): 207–208.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wu, Haiqiang, Hongkun Li, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Engui Zhao, Jing Zhi Sun, Anjun Qin, and Ben Zhong Tang. 2014. “A Recyclable and Reusable Supported Cu(I) Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Click Polymerization.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 5107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein, Lawrence S. B., and Meg Schneider. 2010. Stem Cells for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, Weidong, Leila Alem, and Mark A. Livingston, eds. 2013. Human Factors in Augmented Reality Environments. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schöll, Eckehard, Philipp Hövel, Valentin Flunkert, and Markus A. Dahlem. 2010. “Time-Delayed Feedback Control: From Simple Models to Lasers and Neural Systems.” In Complex Time-Delay Systems: Theory and Applications, edited by Fatihcan M. Atay, 85–150. Understanding Complex Systems. 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 Feminist Media Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “France To Ban Breeding Of Captive Orcas And Dolphins.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1991. Federal Research: Status of DOE’s Superconducting Super Collider. RCED-91-116. 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

Watson, Daniel Jason. 2010. “How the Lead Systems Integrator Experience Should Enhance Efforts to Rebuild the Defense Acquisition Workforce.” 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

Barker, Kim, and Kate Taylor. 2014. “Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest.” New York Times, October 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quirk 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Quirk 2012; Süsstrunk and Huber 2015).

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

Two authors: (Süsstrunk and Huber 2015)
Three authors: (Oliveira, Carneiro, and Canário 2005)
4 or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Feminist Media Studies
Abbreviation	Fem. Media Stud.
ISSN (print)	1468-0777
ISSN (online)	1471-5902
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication Gender Studies