How to format your references using the Gender Issues citation style

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

Riding, R. (2012). Geochemistry. A hard life for cyanobacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6080), 427–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Y.-C., & Ferguson, E. L. (2005). Spatial bistability of Dpp-receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning. Nature, 434(7030), 229–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amin, M., Farhat, M., & Baǧcı, H. (2013). A dynamically reconfigurable Fano metamaterial through graphene tuning for switching and sensing applications. Scientific reports, 3, 2105.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pfleiderer, C., Uhlarz, M., Hayden, S. M., Vollmer, R., v Löhneysen, H., Bernhoeft, N. R., & Lonzarich, G. G. (2001). Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the d-band metal ZrZn2. Nature, 412(6842), 58–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nedoma, J., Stehlík, J., Hlaváček, I., Daněk, J., Dostálová, T., & Přečková, P. (2011). Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atkins, J. F., & Gesteland, R. F. (Eds.). (2010). Recoding: Expansion of Decoding Rules Enriches Gene Expression (Vol. 24). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hraška, V., & Murín, P. (2015). Interruption of the Aortic Arch. In P. Murín (Ed.), Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease II: Single Ventricle and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Aortic Arch Anomalies Septal Defects and Anomalies in Pulmonary Venous Return Anomalies of Thoracic Arteries and Veins A Video Manual (pp. 119–137). 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 Gender Issues.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 11). Measles Mary: An Outbreak Among Vaccinated Patients. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-mary-outbreak-among-vaccinated-patients/

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. (1970). Utilization of the United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter Fleet (No. B-114851). 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

Cornelius, J. (2017). Five Minute Meditation Used to Impact Workplace Meetings (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2017, January 13). Lamenting Dead Kings, Spending Sunday at the Pub. New York Times, p. C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Gender Issues
Abbreviation	Gender Issues
ISSN (print)	1098-092X
ISSN (online)	1936-4717
Scope	Gender Studies