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

Ploegh, Hidde. 2011. “End the Wasteful Tyranny of Reviewer Experiments.” Nature 472 (7344): 391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giovannoni, Stephen J., and Ulrich Stingl. 2005. “Molecular Diversity and Ecology of Microbial Plankton.” Nature 437 (7057): 343–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Che, H., J. F. Drake, and M. Swisdak. 2011. “A Current Filamentation Mechanism for Breaking Magnetic Field Lines during Reconnection.” Nature 474 (7350): 184–187.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Porter, E. A., X. Wang, H. S. Lee, B. Weisblum, and S. H. Gellman. 2000. “Non-Haemolytic Beta-Amino-Acid Oligomers.” Nature 404 (6778): 565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caltagirone, Jean-Paul. 2015. Discrete Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yu, Wen, Haibo He, and Nian Zhang, eds. 2009. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2009: 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009 Wuhan, China, May 26-29, 2009 Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 5552. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gate, Laurent, and Kenneth D. Tew. 2011. “Alkylating Agents.” In Cancer Management in Man: Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, Hyperthermia and Supporting Measures, edited by Boris R. Minev, 61–85. 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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Justin Trudeau Says Canada Will Implement Carbon Tax To Help Meet Climate Change Targets.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1987. District of Columbia: Inmate Participation in Correctional Programs and Previous Lorton Confinements. GGD-87-90. 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

Anderson, Christopher W. 2009. “Breaking Journalism down: Work, Authority, and Networking Local News, 1997–2009.” Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia 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

Crow, Kelly. 2001. “Coffee, Two Eggs Over Easy And a Sketch of a Landmark.” New York Times, April 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ploegh 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ploegh 2011; Giovannoni and Stingl 2005).

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

Two authors: (Giovannoni and Stingl 2005)
Three authors: (Che, Drake, and Swisdak 2011)
4 or more authors: (Porter et al. 2000)

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