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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Hambley, T. W. (2007). Chemistry. Metal-based therapeutics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1392–1393.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hu, J., & Yu, M.-F. (2010). Meniscus-confined three-dimensional electrodeposition for direct writing of wire bonds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5989), 313–316.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lisiecki, L. E., Raymo, M. E., & Curry, W. B. (2008). Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings. Nature, 456(7218), 85–88.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Treps, N., Grosse, N., Bowen, W. P., Fabre, C., Bachor, H.-A., & Lam, P. K. (2003). A quantum laser pointer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5635), 940–943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Eggleston, B. (2008). The ICE Conditions of Contract: Seventh Edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.
An edited book
Ganz, P. A. (Ed.). (2007). Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow. New York, NY: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Maragoudakis, M., Cosmas, N., & Garbis, A. (2008). Mining Natural Language Programming Directives with Class-Oriented Bayesian Networks. In C. Tang, C. X. Ling, X. Zhou, N. J. Cercone, & X. Li (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 4th International Conference, ADMA 2008, Chengdu, China, October 8-10, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 15–26). 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 Interchange.

Blog post
Hale, T. (2016, July 18). Inventor Of The World Wide Web Sends Open Letter To “Save The Open Internet In Europe.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/inventor-of-the-world-wide-web-sends-open-letter-to-save-the-open-internet-in-europe/. 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. (1998). Financial Management: Federal Aviation Administration Lacked Accountability for Major Assets (No. AIMD-98-62). 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
Tanag, H. B. (2017). Building bridges of hope after loss: A self-directed workbook for foster parents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Zahler, P., & Schaller, G. (2014, February 2). Saving More Than Just Snow Leopards. New York Times, p. SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hambley 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hambley 2007; Hu and Yu 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Hu and Yu 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Treps et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleInterchange
AbbreviationInterchange (Tor :, 1984)
ISSN (print)0826-4805
ISSN (online)1573-1790
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
General Social Sciences
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Education
Law

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