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

Triendl, Robert. 2002. “A Clash of Two Cultures.” Nature 419 (6910): 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norris, David J., and Eray S. Aydil. 2012. “Materials Science. Getting Moore from Solar Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6107): 625–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ronshaugen, Matthew, Nadine McGinnis, and William McGinnis. 2002. “Hox Protein Mutation and Macroevolution of the Insect Body Plan.” Nature 415 (6874): 914–917.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bharathan, Geeta, Thomas E. Goliber, Christopher Moore, Sharon Kessler, Thinh Pham, and Neelima R. Sinha. 2002. “Homologies in Leaf Form Inferred from KNOXI Gene Expression during Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5574): 1858–1860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Jianqing, and Qiong Wang. 2012. Body Area Communications. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Wilson-Rawls, Jeanne, and Kenro Kusumi, eds. 2016. Innovations in Molecular Mechanisms and Tissue Engineering. Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ncube, Mthuli, Nombulelo Gumata, and Eliphas Ndou. 2016. “Spillovers from Euro Area Bond Yields into the South African Macro Economy.” In Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-Economy, edited by Nombulelo Gumata and Eliphas Ndou, 67–80. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Weather Forecasting Is About To Get Even Better.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/weather-forecasting-about-get-even-better/.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FBI Needs to Complete Business Continuity Plans. AIMD-00-11. 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

Cook, Ann Elizabeth. 2010. “Gas Hydrate-Filled Fracture Reservoirs on Continental Margins.” Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia 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

Walsh, Mary Williams, and Abby Goodnough. 2011. “Edging Toward Default.” New York Times, July 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2002; Norris and Aydil 2012).

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

Two authors: (Norris and Aydil 2012)
Three authors: (Ronshaugen, McGinnis, and McGinnis 2002)
4 or more authors: (Bharathan et al. 2002)

About the journal

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