How to format your references using the Ibsen Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ibsen 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	Download the output style file
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

Emanuel, Kerry. 2005. “Increasing Destructiveness of Tropical Cyclones over the Past 30 Years.” Nature 436 (7051): 686–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nacher, Jose C., and Tatsuya Akutsu. 2013. “Structural Controllability of Unidirectional Bipartite Networks.” Scientific Reports 3: 1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rasmussen, L. E. L., H. S. Riddle, and V. Krishnamurthy. 2002. “Mellifluous Matures to Malodorous in Musth.” Nature 415 (6875): 975–976.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pascal, John M., Patrick J. O’Brien, Alan E. Tomkinson, and Tom Ellenberger. 2004. “Human DNA Ligase I Completely Encircles and Partially Unwinds Nicked DNA.” Nature 432 (7016): 473–478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thompson, G. R. 2011. Reading the American Novel 1865-1914. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre, Bernard Jégou, Bernard Kerdelhué, Jorma Toppari, and Yves Christen, eds. 2011. Multi-System Endocrine Disruption. Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Luks, Andrew M., and Susan R. Hopkins. 2014. “Lung Function and Gas Exchange.” In High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia, edited by Erik R. Swenson and Peter Bärtsch, 57–83. 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 Ibsen Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Oldest Known Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/stone-tools-shatter-age-record/.

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. 2010. Organizational Transformation: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0) (Supersedes GAO-03-584G). GAO-10-846G. 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

Miramontes, Adriana J. 2017. “Examining Eye Fixation Patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under Varying Levels of Workload.” 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

Lee, Linda. 2011. “10 Young Upstarts Strut Their Stuff in Miami.” New York Times, November 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emanuel 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Emanuel 2005; Nacher and Akutsu 2013).

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

Two authors: (Nacher and Akutsu 2013)
Three authors: (Rasmussen, Riddle, and Krishnamurthy 2002)
4 or more authors: (Pascal et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ibsen Studies
ISSN (print)	1502-1866
ISSN (online)	1741-8720
Scope	History Literature and Literary Theory