How to format your references using the International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean 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	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

Leggett T (2004) Physics. Superfluidity in a crystal? Science 305:1921–1922

A journal article with 2 authors

Nijman SMB, Friend SH (2013) Cancer. Potential of the synthetic lethality principle. Science 342:809–811

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim J-E, Chen J, Lou Z (2008) DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1. Nature 451:583–586

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu Y, Zadorozhny Y, Rosario MM, et al (2001) Destruction of the global phase coherence in ultrathin, doubly connected superconducting cylinders. Science 294:2332–2334

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Renaud B, Kim K-H, Cho M (2016) Dynamics of Housing in East Asia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Xiao JJ (ed) (2008) Handbook of Consumer Finance Research. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nandram S, Joshi A (2016) An Ethics of Care Induced from Kautilya’s Wisdom. In: Chatterji M, Zsolnai L (eds) Ethical Leadership: Indian and European Spiritual Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 53–69

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 International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Study Strengthens Link Between Prenatal Pesticide Exposure and Autism. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1982) The Case for Programwide Statistical Reviews of Fraud and Abuse. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Harvey TN (2016) Effects of low pass filtered input on adult non-lexical intonation in second language acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Klein JZ, Pilon M (2013) Long Goodbye: Contracts That Keep On Giving. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leggett 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Leggett 2004; Nijman and Friend 2013).

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

Two authors: (Nijman and Friend 2013)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies
ISSN (print)	1855-3362
ISSN (online)	2232-6022
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