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

van de Walle, Axel. 2014. “Melting Mechanisms. Simulations Provide a Rare Look at Real Melting.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6210): 704–705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frey, Brendan J., and Delbert Dueck. 2007. “Clustering by Passing Messages between Data Points.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5814): 972–976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue, Song, Kate Calvin, and Hong Li. 2006. “RNA Recognition and Cleavage by a Splicing Endonuclease.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5775): 906–910.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mühlbauer, S., B. Binz, F. Jonietz, C. Pfleiderer, A. Rosch, A. Neubauer, R. Georgii, and P. Böni. 2009. “Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5916): 915–919.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crook, Tony, and Peter A. Kemp. 2010. Transforming Private Landlords. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Dosch, Walter, Roger Y. Lee, and Chisu Wu, eds. 2006. Software Engineering Research and Applications: Second International Conference, SERA 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA, MAY 5-7, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 3647. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bijak, Jakub, and Marek Kupiszewski. 2013. “International Migration Trends in Europe Prior to 2002.” In International Migration and the Future of Populations and Labour in Europe, edited by Marek Kupiszewski, 57–74. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. “World’s Forests Are Fragmenting Into Tiny Patches – Risking Mass Extinctions.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/world-s-forests-are-fragmenting-tiny-patches-risking-mass-extinctions/.

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. 2007. NASA: Challenges in Completing and Sustaining the International Space Station. GAO-07-1121T. 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

Watkins, Jasmine J. 2017. “Victor Echo Tango (VET) Support Services Inc.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Eder, Steve, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, and Stacy Cowley. 2017. “Watchdog Targeted as an Obama-Era Holdover.” New York Times, August 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van de Walle 2014).
This sentence cites two references (van de Walle 2014; Frey and Dueck 2007).

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

Two authors: (Frey and Dueck 2007)
Three authors: (Xue, Calvin, and Li 2006)
4 or more authors: (Mühlbauer et al. 2009)

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