How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary European Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Sisodia, Sangram S. 2002. “Biomedicine. A Cargo Receptor Mystery APParently Solved?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5556): 805–807.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, Gregory M., and Charles S. Craik. 2009. “Trapping Moving Targets with Small Molecules.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5924): 213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rees, Martin, Ben Koppelman, and Neil Davison. 2010. “Scientific Steps to Nuclear Disarmament.” Nature 465 (7296): 290–291.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Orning, Pontus, Dan Weng, Kristian Starheim, Dmitry Ratner, Zachary Best, Bettina Lee, Alexandria Brooks, et al. 2018. “Pathogen Blockade of TAK1 Triggers Caspase-8-Dependent Cleavage of Gasdermin D and Cell Death.” Science (New York, N.Y.), October.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raz, Danny, Arto Juhola, Joan Serrat-Fernandez, and Alex Galis. 2006. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Biba, Marenglen, and Fatos Xhafa, eds. 2011. Learning Structure and Schemas from Documents. Vol. 375. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Julian, Stephen R. 2015. “Quantum Oscillation Measurements Applied to Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.” In Strongly Correlated Systems: Experimental Techniques, edited by Adolfo Avella and Ferdinando Mancini, 137–172. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Contemporary European Studies.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “What Will The World Actually Look Like At 1.5°C Of Warming?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-will-the-world-actually-look-like-at-1-point-5c-of-warming/.

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. 1969. Administration and Control of Procurement and Utilization of Automatic Data Processing. 089444. 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

Smith, Steven Michael. 2017. “The Relationship Between Political Affiliation and Student Achievement in the Areas of Reading and Mathematics, with Respect to Black Students.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “Athlete-Fan Dialogue Becomes Shouting Match.” New York Times, June 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sisodia 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Sisodia 2002; Lee and Craik 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Craik 2009)
Three authors: (Rees, Koppelman, and Davison 2010)
4 or more authors: (Orning et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Eur. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1478-2804
ISSN (online)	1478-2790
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations