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

Heinrich, A. J. (2009). Applied physics. Looking below the surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1178–1179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera, A. M., & Cohn, M. J. (2014). Embryonic origin and compartmental organization of the external genitalia. Scientific Reports, 4, 6896.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willbold, M., Elliott, T., & Moorbath, S. (2011). The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature, 477(7363), 195–198.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bella, A., Shaw, M., Ray, S., & Ryadnov, M. G. (2014). Filming protein fibrillogenesis in real time. Scientific Reports, 4, 7529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Danson, E. (2016). Drawing the Line. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dörner, R., Göbel, S., Effelsberg, W., & Wiemeyer, J. (Eds.). (2016). Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dermietzel, R., & Meier, C. (2005). Gap Junction Expression in Brain Tissues with Focus on Development. In E. Winterhager (Ed.), Gap Junctions in Development and Disease (pp. 83–110). 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 International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 21). The Future Of Data Science Looks Spectacular. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/future-data-science-looks-spectacular/

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. (2005). Aviation Security: Systematic Planning Needed to Optimize the Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems (GAO-05-365). 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

Almasaari, A. H. (2017). Arab American women’s identity crises in Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and Laila Halaby’s “West of the Jordan” [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, July 6). Film Series. New York Times, C20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heinrich, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Heinrich, 2009; Herrera & Cohn, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Herrera & Cohn, 2014)
Three authors: (Willbold et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Bella et al., 2014)

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

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