How to format your references using the Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Islam and Christian-Muslim 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

Bejan, Adrian. 2014. “Maxwell’s Demons Everywhere: Evolving Design as the Arrow of Time.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4017.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rouse, John, and Stephen P. Jackson. 2002. “Interfaces between the Detection, Signaling, and Repair of DNA Damage.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5581): 547–551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R., Orangel Aguilera, and Inés Horovitz. 2003. “The Anatomy of the World’s Largest Extinct Rodent.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5640): 1708–1710.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fukuda, Kenjiro, Yasunori Takeda, Makoto Mizukami, Daisuke Kumaki, and Shizuo Tokito. 2014. “Fully Solution-Processed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistor Arrays with High Mobility and Exceptional Uniformity.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 3947.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, Phillip I., and James W. Hardin. 2006. Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hofmann, Erik. 2013. The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide: A Roadmap to Operational Excellence. Edited by Patrick Beck and Erik Füger. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Blokhuis, Harry, Isabelle Veissier, Bryan Jones, and Mara Miele. 2013. “The Welfare Quality® Vision.” In Improving Farm Animal Welfare: Science and Society Working Together: The Welfare Quality Approach, edited by Harry Blokhuis, Mara Miele, Isabelle Veissier, and Bryan Jones, 71–89. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

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 Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “This Man Has Been Shedding The Polio Virus For 28 Years.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-has-been-shedding-polio-virus-28-years/.

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. 1970. Use of Consultants by NASA. B-168033. Washington, DC: 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

Black, Alice M. 2006. “Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “Tennis Divided by Wild Cards for Sharapova.” New York Times, March 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bejan 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bejan 2014; Rouse and Jackson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rouse and Jackson 2002)
Three authors: (Sánchez-Villagra, Aguilera, and Horovitz 2003)
4 or more authors: (Fukuda et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
ISSN (print)	0959-6410
ISSN (online)	1469-9311
Scope	Religious studies Political Science and International Relations