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

Baker, David F. “Climate Change. Reassessing Carbon Sinks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5832 (June 22, 2007): 1708–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyle, John, and Neil Harris. “Joe Farman (1930-2013).” Nature 498, no. 7455 (June 27, 2013): 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mézard, M., G. Parisi, and R. Zecchina. “Analytic and Algorithmic Solution of Random Satisfiability Problems.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, no. 5582 (August 2, 2002): 812–15.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nishimasu, Hiroshi, Xi Shi, Soh Ishiguro, Linyi Gao, Seiichi Hirano, Sae Okazaki, Taichi Noda, et al. “Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 Nuclease with Expanded Targeting Space.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361, no. 6408 (September 21, 2018): 1259–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing, Dominique, and Stéphane Calé. Mobile Access Safety. Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Meersman, Robert, Tharam Dillon, and Pilar Herrero, eds. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops and Posters: EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP+INBAST, ISDE, ORM, OTMA, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS, and VADER 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 7046. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Malinowska, Agnieszka B., and Delfim F. M. Torres. “Conclusion.” In Quantum Variational Calculus, edited by Delfim F. M. Torres, 79–81. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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. “Working Hoverboard Sets New World Record.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 28, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/guinness-world-record-broken-farthest-hoverboard-flight/.

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. “[Comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Implementation of Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934].” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 10, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson, Renae Angelique. “Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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, John. “Shift at ‘CBS Evening News’ Breaks With Smooth Routine.” New York Times, May 31, 2017.

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