How to format your references using the Interchange citation style

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

Pandolfi, J. M. (2015). Ecology: Deep and complex ways to survive bleaching. Nature, 518(7537), 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boomsma, J. J., & Pamilo, P. (2010). Retrospective. Rossiter H. Crozier (1943-2009). Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sereno, M. I., Pitzalis, S., & Martinez, A. (2001). Mapping of contralateral space in retinotopic coordinates by a parietal cortical area in humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5545), 1350–1354.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Erb, K.-H., Kastner, T., Plutzar, C., Bais, A. L. S., Carvalhais, N., Fetzel, T., et al. (2018). Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature, 553(7686), 73–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marston, R. C. (2011). Portfolio Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Filippi, M., Rovaris, M., & Comi, G. (Eds.). (2007). Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borwein, P., Choi, S., Rooney, B., & Weirathmueller, A. (2008). Equivalent Statements. In P. Borwein, S. Choi, B. Rooney, & A. Weirathmueller (Eds.), The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Afficionado and Virtuoso Alike (pp. 45–54). 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 Interchange.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 14). Ancient Fossil Shows First Evidence Of Live Births In Animals Thought To Only Lay Eggs. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-fossil-shows-first-evidence-of-live-births-in-animals-thought-to-only-lay-eggs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2000). Early Education and Care: Overlap Indicates Need to Assess Crosscutting Programs (No. HEHS-00-78). 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

Tickner, A. (2009). Production and consumption at the hillfort site of Mont Dardon, France: An archeobotanical analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Williams, J. (2016, August 21). Outside The Bars. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pandolfi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Boomsma and Pamilo 2010; Pandolfi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Boomsma and Pamilo 2010)
Three or more authors: (Erb et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Interchange
Abbreviation	Interchange (Tor :, 1984)
ISSN (print)	0826-4805
ISSN (online)	1573-1790
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Social Sciences Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education Law