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

Leonhardt, Ulf. 2002. “A Laboratory Analogue of the Event Horizon Using Slow Light in an Atomic Medium.” Nature 415 (6870): 406–409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schacter, Daniel L., and Donna Rose Addis. 2007. “Constructive Memory: The Ghosts of Past and Future.” Nature 445 (7123): 27.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Yi-Cai, Shu-Wei Song, and Wu-Ming Liu. 2014. “The Confinement Induced Resonance in Spin-Orbit Coupled Cold Atoms with Raman Coupling.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 4992.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Aanen, Duur K., Henrik H. de Fine Licht, Alfons J. M. Debets, Niels A. G. Kerstes, Rolf F. Hoekstra, and Jacobus J. Boomsma. 2009. “High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5956): 1103–1106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Unmehopa, Musa, Kumar Vemuri, and Andy Bennett. 2006. Parlay/OSA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Baker, Matthew, and Sam Payne, eds. 2016. Nonarchimedean and Tropical Geometry. Simons Symposia. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

McConnell, Robert. 2008. “A Solar Concentrator Pathway to Low-Cost Electrolytic Hydrogen.” In Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future, edited by Krishnan Rajeshwar, Robert McConnell, and Stuart Licht, 65–86. New York, NY: 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

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Tech Giants Form Artificial Intelligence Supergroup, But Not Everyone’s In.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tech-giants-form-artificial-intelligence-supergroup-but-not-everyones-in/.

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. 1998. Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests. HEHS-98-163. 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

Short, Duane D. 2009. “Assessing Effectiveness and Economic Efficiency in California Community College Transfer Advising.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Kelly, Caitlin. 2009. “Sheltering Realtors’ Commissions.” New York Times, January 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonhardt 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Leonhardt 2002; Schacter and Addis 2007).

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

Two authors: (Schacter and Addis 2007)
Three authors: (Zhang, Song, and Liu 2014)
4 or more authors: (Aanen et al. 2009)

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