How to format your references using the International Journal of Intercultural Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 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 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

Kondrashov, A. (2012). James Crow (1916-2012). Nature, 481(7382), 444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bentley, W. E., & Payne, G. F. (2013). Materials science. Nature’s other self-assemblers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6142), 136–137.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, D., Zhao, L., & Clapham, D. E. (2009). Genome-wide RNAi screen identifies Letm1 as a mitochondrial Ca2+/H+ antiporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5949), 144–147.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Marois, C., Macintosh, B., Barman, T., Zuckerman, B., Song, I., Patience, J., Lafrenière, D., & Doyon, R. (2008). Direct imaging of multiple planets orbiting the star HR 8799. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1348–1352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blevins, R. D. (2015). Formulas for Dynamics, Acoustics and Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fleet, D., Pajdla, T., Schiele, B., & Tuytelaars, T. (Eds.). (2014). Computer Vision – ECCV 2014: 13th European Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 8690). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Eden, P. (2015). The Practices of Apartheid as a War Crime: A Critical Analysis. In T. D. Gill, R. Geiß, R. Heinsch, T. McCormack, C. Paulussen, & J. Dorsey (Eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 2013 (pp. 89–117). T.M.C. Asser Press.

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 Intercultural Relations.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 6). How Do Balancing Rocks Survive Earthquakes? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/balancing-rock-survive-due-jumping-earthquakes/

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). Aviation Safety: FAA Has Not Fully Implemented Weather-Related Recommendations (RCED-98-130). 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

Englebrecht, K. M. (2012). Healing the invisible wounds: A grant proposal for female veterans suffering from PTSD [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

Koblin, J. (2016, November 29). Wilmore Signs Deal With ABC Studios. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kondrashov, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bentley & Payne, 2013; Kondrashov, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bentley & Payne, 2013)
Three authors: (Jiang et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Marois et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Abbreviation	Int. J. Intercult. Relat.
ISSN (print)	0147-1767
Scope	Business and International Management Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science