How to format your references using the Feminist Theory citation style

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

Bainbridge, William Sims (2003) ‘Perceptions of science essay. Privacy and property on the Net: research questions’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651): 1686–1687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Zhonghua, and Xiao, Tsan Sam (2015) ‘STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Assembling the wheel of death’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259): 376–377.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pepe, Francesco, Ehrenreich, David, and Meyer, Michael R. (2014) ‘Instrumentation for the detection and characterization of exoplanets’. Nature, 513(7518): 358–366.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Bikard, David, Patel, Dhaval, Le Metté, Claire, et al. (2009) ‘Divergent evolution of duplicate genes leads to genetic incompatibilities within A. thaliana’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914): 623–626.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, Ernesto M., and Kamal-Eldin, Afaf (2013) Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barranger, John A. (2007) Lysosomal Storage Disorders. ed. Cabrera-Salazar, Mario A. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ingolfo, Silvia, Siena, Alberto, and Mylopoulos, John (2011) ‘Establishing Regulatory Compliance for Software Requirements’. In: Jeusfeld, Manfred, Delcambre, Lois, and Ling, Tok-Wang (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2011: 30th International Conference, ER 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 3, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 47–61.

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 Theory.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen (2015, June 21) ‘Biotech Firm 3D Prints Fake Rhino Horn That’s Genetically Identical To The Real Thing’. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fake-rhino-horn-fight-poaching/ (accessed 30 October 2018). 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 (2004) Unfunded Mandates: Analysis of Reform Act Coverage (No. GAO-04-637). 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

Ott, Walter H. (2017) An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vecsey, George (2010, December 1) ‘Back-Scratching With a Global Reach’. New York Times,: B19. p. B19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bainbridge, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bainbridge, 2003; Liu and Xiao, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Xiao, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bikard et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Feminist Theory
ISSN (print)	1464-7001
ISSN (online)	1741-2773
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