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

Trivedi, B. (2012) ‘Microbiome: The Surface Brigade’. Nature, Vol. 492, No. 7429, pp. S60-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Waal, F. B. and Berger, M. L. (2000) ‘Payment for Labour in Monkeys’. Nature, Vol. 404, No. 6778, p. 563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Travis, D. J., Carleton, A. M. and Lauritsen, R. G. (2002) ‘Contrails Reduce Daily Temperature Range’. Nature, Vol. 418, No. 6898, p. 601.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Gurwitz, D., Fortier, I., Lunshof, J. E. and Knoppers, B. M. (2009) ‘Research Ethics. Children and Population Biobanks’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 325, No. 5942, pp. 818–819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephanie Hammer (2013) Architects of Electronic Trading (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Ott, I. and Kõiv, T. (eds) (2005) Lake Verevi, Estonia — A Highly Stratified Hypertrophic Lake (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Özgen, S. and Demirekler, M. (2016) ‘A Fast Elimination Method for Pruning in POMDPs’. In Friedrich, G., Helmert, M., and Wotawa, F. (eds) KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 39th Annual German Conference on AI, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 56–68.

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, D. (2017) Africa’s Most Toxic Lakes Are A Paradise For Fearless Flamingos, IFLScience. Available at «https://www.iflscience.com/environment/africas-most-toxic-lakes-are-a-paradise-for-fearless-flamingos/».

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 (1991) ‘Financial Management: Actions Needed to Ensure Effective Implementation of NASA’s Accounting 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

Gu, J. (2010) Measurement, Modeling, and Synthesis of Time-Varying Appearance of Natural Phenomena, 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

Kelly, C. (2011) ‘A No. 2 Theater Company Grabs the State Spotlight’, New York Times ( 28 August 2011).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Trivedi, 2012; de Waal and Berger, 2000).

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

Two authors: (de Waal and Berger, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Gurwitz et al., 2009)

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