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

Hoffman, Jennifer E. 2010. “Physics. Sign Flips and Spin Fluctuations in Iron High-Tc Superconductors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5977): 441–443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fazleabas, Asgerally T., and J. Julie Kim. 2003. “Development. What Makes an Embryo Stick?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5605): 355–356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tassin, Philippe, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis. 2013. “Applied Physics. Graphene for Terahertz Applications.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341 (6146): 620–621.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

van de Loosdrecht, Marieke, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey, Cosimo Posth, Nick Barton, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Birgit Nickel, et al. 2018. “Pleistocene North African Genomes Link Near Eastern and Sub-Saharan African Human Populations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 360 (6388): 548–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bannwarth, Helmut. 2005. Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Saeed, Khalid, and Wladyslaw Homenda, eds. 2015. Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 14th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2015, Warsaw, Poland, September 24-26, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Vol. 9339. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pelletier, Émilien. 2013. “Antifouling Agents and Associated Ecotoxicity.” In Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology, edited by Jean-François Férard and Christian Blaise, 39–48. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Dumb Bumblebees Are Better Workers.” IFLScience. 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. 1989. Aviation Safety: Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force. RCED-89-112. 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

Edwards, Joseph Walter. 2006. “The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

George, Rose. 2010. ... “... And Sewage, Too.” New York Times, April 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoffman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hoffman 2010; Fazleabas and Kim 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fazleabas and Kim 2003)
Three authors: (Tassin, Koschny, and Soukoulis 2013)
4 or more authors: (van de Loosdrecht et al. 2018)

About the journal

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