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

Hodges, Andrew. “The Man behind the Machine.” Nature 482, no. 7386 (February 22, 2012): 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trenberth, Kevin E., and John T. Fasullo. “Climate Change. Tracking Earth’s Energy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, no. 5976 (April 16, 2010): 316–17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lemieux, C., C. Otis, and M. Turmel. “Ancestral Chloroplast Genome in Mesostigma Viride Reveals an Early Branch of Green Plant Evolution.” Nature 403, no. 6770 (February 10, 2000): 649–52.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lebreton, Sébastien, Veit Grabe, Aman B. Omondi, Rickard Ignell, Paul G. Becher, Bill S. Hansson, Silke Sachse, and Peter Witzgall. “Love Makes Smell Blind: Mating Suppresses Pheromone Attraction in Drosophila Females via Or65a Olfactory Neurons.” Scientific Reports 4 (November 19, 2014): 7119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, Jaemoon. Six-Membered Transition States in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

García-Tejero, Iván Francisco. Water and Sustainable Agriculture. Edited by Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo, José Luis Muriel-Fernández, and Carmen Rocío Rodríguez-Pleguezuelo. SpringerBriefs in Agriculture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, Barry. “Specialized Agencies of the UN.” In The Statesman’s Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World 2013, edited by Barry Turner, 13–24. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012.

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. “Rare ‘Alien Of The Deep’ Caught Off Of Australia.” IFLScience. IFLScience, March 3, 2015.

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. “Early Childhood Education: What Are the Costs of High-Quality Programs?” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 24, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blankenship, Kevin. “An Analysis of Illinois Public School Funding a Descriptive Comparison of Equity: 2005 v. 2015.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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

Gustines, George Gene. “R. L. Stine to Write Comic Books for Marvel.” New York Times, December 9, 2016.

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