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

Eicken, Hajo. 2013. “Arctic Sea Ice Needs Better Forecasts.” Nature 497 (7450): 431–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olszewski, Thomas D., and Douglas H. Erwin. 2004. “Dynamic Response of Permian Brachiopod Communities to Long-Term Environmental Change.” Nature 428 (6984): 738–741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kulmala, M., L. Pirjola, and J. M. Makela. 2000. “Stable Sulphate Clusters as a Source of New Atmospheric Particles.” Nature 404 (6773): 66–69.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Xiaolin, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Shunxing Jiang, Xin Cheng, Qiang Wang, Yingxia Ma, Yahefujiang Paidoula, et al. 2017. “Egg Accumulation with 3D Embryos Provides Insight into the Life History of a Pterosaur.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 358 (6367): 1197–1201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic, Savo G. 2011. Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Riaño, David, ed. 2009. Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures: ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5626. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Selouani, Sid-Ahmed. 2010. “‘Well Adjusted’: Using Robust and Flexible Speech Recognition Capabilities in Clean to Noisy Mobile Environments.” In Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics, edited by Amy Neustein, 91–112. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “No Males Required: Shark Switches To Asexual Reproduction.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-males-required-shark-switches-to-asexual-reproduction/.

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. 2015. Federal Research: DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management Improvements. GAO-15-212. 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

Dhokar, Abhishek. 2015. “LabVIEW Based Simulation and Animation for the Vibration Control of Active Mass Damper.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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, Caitlin. 2000. “Doing Business In Small Quarters.” New York Times, November 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eicken 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Eicken 2013; Olszewski and Erwin 2004).

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

Two authors: (Olszewski and Erwin 2004)
Three authors: (Kulmala, Pirjola, and Makela 2000)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2017)

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