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

Tour JM (2014) Materials chemistry: Seeds of selective nanotube growth. Nature 512:30–31

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully MO, Zubairy MS (2003) Physics. Playing tricks with slow light. Science 301:181–182

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin Y, Wang X, Wang ZL (2008) Microfibre-nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging. Nature 451:809–813

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Herbst W, Hamilton CM, LeDuc K, et al (2008) Reflected light from sand grains in the terrestrial zone of a protoplanetary disk. Nature 452:194–197

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe A, Coleman S (2014) A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ahmad P, Azooz MM, Prasad MNV (eds) (2013) Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants under Salt Stress. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Greve R, Blatter H (2009) Constitutive Equations for Polycrystalline Ice. In: Blatter H (ed) Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–60

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

Hale T (2015) Check Out This Jetpack Inventor Flying Around The Statue Of Liberty. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/check-out-jetpack-inventor-flying-around-statue-liberty0/. 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 (2008) Highway Public-Private Partnerships: More Rigorous Up-Front Analysis Could Better Secure Potential Benefits and Protect the Public Interest. 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

Rodriguez RM (2017) Experimental Evaluation of Cooling Effectiveness and Water Conservation in a Poultry House Using Flow Blurring Atomizers. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Valen K (2007) My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood. New York Times 96

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tour 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Scully and Zubairy 2003; Tour 2014).

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

Two authors: (Scully and Zubairy 2003)
Three or more authors: (Herbst et al. 2008)

About the journal

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