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

Crommie, Michael F. 2005. “Physics. Manipulating Magnetism in a Single Molecule.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5740): 1501–1502.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ciesla, Fred J., and Scott A. Sandford. 2012. “Organic Synthesis via Irradiation and Warming of Ice Grains in the Solar Nebula.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6080): 452–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sidi, Samuel, Rainer W. Friedrich, and Teresa Nicolson. 2003. “NompC TRP Channel Required for Vertebrate Sensory Hair Cell Mechanotransduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5629): 96–99.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kang, H. J., Pengcheng Dai, J. W. Lynn, M. Matsuura, J. R. Thompson, Shou-Cheng Zhang, D. N. Argyriou, Y. Onose, and Y. Tokura. 2003. “Antiferromagnetic Order as the Competing Ground State in Electron-Doped Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4.” Nature 423 (6939): 522–525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carvalho, Matheus C. 2016. Practical Laboratory Automation. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Cerny, Eduard. 2010. The Power of Assertions in SystemVerilog. Edited by Surrendra Dudani, John Havlicek, and Dmitry Korchemny. First. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott, Jill, and Esther Stoeckli. 2012. “Tactile Perception.” In Neuromedia: Art and Neuroscience Research, edited by Jill Scott and Esther Stoeckli, 87–116. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “New Ebola Test Can Rapidly Diagnose the Disease in Minutes.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-ebola-test-can-rapidly-diagnose-disease-minutes/.

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. 2005. Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences. GAO-05-684. 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

Bankapura, Sagar. 2016. “Packet Adaptive Routing in Communication Network.” 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

Nir, Sarah Maslin. 2015. “Behind Perfect Nails, Ailing Salon Workers.” New York Times, May 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crommie 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Crommie 2005; Ciesla and Sandford 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ciesla and Sandford 2012)
Three authors: (Sidi, Friedrich, and Nicolson 2003)
4 or more authors: (Kang et al. 2003)

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