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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Benabid, A. L. (2015) ‘Neuroscience: Spotlight on Deep-Brain Stimulation’. Nature, Vol. 519, No. 7543, pp. 299–300.
A journal article with 2 authors
Parker, J. L. and Newstead, S. (2014) ‘Molecular Basis of Nitrate Uptake by the Plant Nitrate Transporter NRT1.1’. Nature, Vol. 507, No. 7490, pp. 68–72.
A journal article with 3 authors
McSween, H. Y., Jr, Taylor, G. J. and Wyatt, M. B. (2009) ‘Elemental Composition of the Martian Crust’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 324, No. 5928, pp. 736–739.
A journal article with 99 or more authors
Stites, E. C., Trampont, P. C., Ma, Z. and Ravichandran, K. S. (2007) ‘Network Analysis of Oncogenic Ras Activation in Cancer’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 318, No. 5849, pp. 463–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Voldman, S. H. (2006) ESD (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).
An edited book
Golden, B., Raghavan, S. and Wasil, E. (eds) (2005) The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies (Boston, MA: Springer US).
A chapter in an edited book
Cazzulani, G., Ferrari, M., Resta, F. and Ripamonti, F. (2011) ‘A Numerical and Experimental Analysis for the Active Vibration Control of a Concrete Placing Boom’. In Vasques, C. M. A. and Dias Rodrigues, J. (eds) Vibration and Structural Acoustics Analysis: Current Research and Related Technologies (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), pp. 79–97.

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
Davis, J. (2017) Alzheimer’s Drug Could Be Used To Naturally Regenerate Teeth, IFLScience. Available at «https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alzheimers-drug-could-be-used-to-naturally-regenerate-teeth/».

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 (1989) ‘Computer Systems: Types and Sources of Department of State Lookout Records’ (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
Hudson, K. R. (2012) Student Perception of Teachers’ National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Dispositions, Doctoral dissertation, (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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
Burghardt, L. F. (2007) ‘Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park’, New York Times ( 7 January 2007).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benabid, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Benabid, 2015; Parker and Newstead, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Parker and Newstead, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Stites et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Common Market Studies
AbbreviationJ. Common Mark. Stud.
ISSN (print)0021-9886
ISSN (online)1468-5965
ScopeGeneral Business, Management and Accounting
Business and International Management
Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

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