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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Agnew, B. 2000. “RESEARCH ETHICS: Studies Trace Patchwork of Conflict Policies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5498): 1873a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray, L. Bryan, and Nancy R. Gough. 2002. “Orienteering Strategies for a Signaling Maze.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5573): 1632–1633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs, J. A., N. F. Lowndes, and S. P. Jackson. 2000. “A Role for Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Histone H2A in DNA Repair.” Nature 408 (6815): 1001–1004.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Imai, S., C. M. Armstrong, M. Kaeberlein, and L. Guarente. 2000. “Transcriptional Silencing and Longevity Protein Sir2 Is an NAD-Dependent Histone Deacetylase.” Nature 403 (6771): 795–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros, Nikolaos, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Stavros Liatis, Konstantinos Makrilakis, and Nikolaos Tentolouris. 2011. Diabetic Emergencies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Coscas, Gabriel. 2009. Optical Coherence Tomography in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: OCT in AMD. Edited by Florence Coscas, Sabrina Vismara, Alain Zourdani, and C. Iole Li Calzi. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitamura, Soichiro. 2007. “Tissue Engineering Research and Cell Regenerative Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD); National Cardiovascular Center (Japan) Trials.” In World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006: August 27 – September 1, 2006 COEX Seoul, Korea “Imaging the Future Medicine,” edited by R. Magjarevic and J. H. Nagel, 5–5. IFMBE Proceedings. 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 Ibsen Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “A Deadly, Mutating Wheat Fungus Is Spreading – Here’s How To Track It.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 3. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deadly-mutating-wheat-fungus-spreading-here-s-how-track-it/.

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. 2014. Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact. GAO-15-68. 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

Ren, Hanlong. 2014. “Modification and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons for Resorcinol Removal.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana.

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

Crow, Kelly. 2000. “Midnight at the Oasis, as Restaurant’s Lease Is Withdrawn.” New York Times, July 9, 2000.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Agnew 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Agnew 2000; Ray and Gough 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ray and Gough 2002)
Three authors: (Downs, Lowndes, and Jackson 2000)
4 or more authors: (Imai et al. 2000)

About the journal

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