How to format your references using the Journal of Common Market Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). 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

Gutiérrez, R. A. (2012) ‘Systems Biology for Enhanced Plant Nitrogen Nutrition’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 336, No. 6089, pp. 1673–1675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Townley, R. and Shapiro, L. (2007) ‘Crystal Structures of the Adenylate Sensor from Fission Yeast AMP-Activated Protein Kinase’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 315, No. 5819, pp. 1726–1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodell, M., Velicogna, I. and Famiglietti, J. S. (2009) ‘Satellite-Based Estimates of Groundwater Depletion in India’. Nature, Vol. 460, No. 7258, pp. 999–1002.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Tou, W. I., Chang, S.-S., Lee, C.-C. and Chen, C. Y.-C. (2013) ‘Drug Design for Neuropathic Pain Regulation from Traditional Chinese Medicine’. Scientific reports, Vol. 3, p. 844.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCormick, K. and Salcedo, J. (2017) SPSS Reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization (Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Tsang, P., Cheung, S. K. S., Lee, V. S. K. and Huang, R. (eds) (2010) Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Naoi, K. (2013) ‘Electrochemical Supercapacitors and Hybrid Systems’. In Brodd, R. J. (ed) Batteries for Sustainability: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (New York, NY: Springer), pp. 93–115.

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 Journal of Common Market Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) NASA Wants to Send an Airplane to Mars, IFLScience. Available at «https://www.iflscience.com/technology/first-mars-airplane/».

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 (1986) ‘DOD Acquisition: Case Study of the Air Force Space Based Space Surveillance System’ (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

Belknap, B. M. (2012) Fostering Resilience in Beginning Special Education Teachers, Doctoral dissertation, (Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Yee, V. and Cowan, A. L. (2013) ‘Skakel Lawyer, In a TV Twist, Is Talk Fodder’, New York Times ( 28 October 2013).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gutiérrez, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gutiérrez, 2012; Townley and Shapiro, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Townley and Shapiro, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tou et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Common Market Studies
Abbreviation	J. Common Mark. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0021-9886
ISSN (online)	1468-5965
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Political Science and International Relations