How to format your references using the Irish Studies Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Studies Review. 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

Geller, Robert J. “Shake-up Time for Japanese Seismology.” Nature 472, no. 7344 (April 28, 2011): 407–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Evenson, R. E., and D. Gollin. “Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300, no. 5620 (May 2, 2003): 758–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, Jeff, Alex Rau, and Kristian Brüning. “Climate Change. Bridging the Montreal-Kyoto Gap.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, no. 5955 (November 13, 2009): 940–41.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Whitlock, Jonathan R., Arnold J. Heynen, Marshall G. Shuler, and Mark F. Bear. “Learning Induces Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5790 (August 25, 2006): 1093–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bains, Gurnek. Cultural DNA. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Carbó Valverde, Santiago, Pedro Jesús Cuadros Solas, and Francisco Rodríguez Fernández, eds. Liquidity Risk, Efficiency and New Bank Business Models. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

George, Saji. “Nanomaterial Properties: Implications for Safe Medical Applications of Nanotechnology.” In Nanotechnology in Endodontics: Current and Potential Clinical Applications, edited by Anil Kishen, 45–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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 Irish Studies Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Hubble Takes Spectacular Photograph Of Nebula And Star Together.” IFLScience. IFLScience, August 24, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-photographs-glamorous-cosmic-couple/.

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. “Department of Education: Guaranteed Student Loan Program Vulnerabilities.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 21, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castan, Juliana Unis. “Congruence x Employment Tenure: A Study with Transitioning Youth with Disabilities.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Referendum In Chechnya.” New York Times, October 2, 2002.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Irish Studies Review
Abbreviation	Ir. Stud. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0967-0882
ISSN (online)	1469-9303
Scope	History Literature and Literary Theory Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies