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

Check, Erika. 2002. “Biodefence: Ploughshares into Swords.” Nature 420 (6917): 736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilks, Jessica, and Tatyana Golovkina. 2015. “Immunology. Interfering with Interferons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6219): 233–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laine, Elsi-Mari, Heinz-Peter Breuer, and Jyrki Piilo. 2014. “Nonlocal Memory Effects Allow Perfect Teleportation with Mixed States.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4620.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bartels, C., C. Hock, J. Huwer, R. Kuhnen, J. Schwöbel, and B. von Issendorff. 2009. “Probing the Angular Momentum Character of the Valence Orbitals of Free Sodium Nanoclusters.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5919): 1323–1327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Canham, Judith, and Joanne Bennett. 2008. Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Specht, Lena, and Joachim Yahalom, eds. 2011. Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Xiaochang C., Chongmiao Zhang, Xiaoyan Ma, and Li Luo. 2015. “Future Perspectives.” In Water Cycle Management: A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control, edited by Chongmiao Zhang, Xiaoyan Ma, and Li Luo, 95–98. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. 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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “King Arthur’s Birthplace May Have Just Been Found By Archaeologists.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/king-arthurs-birthplace-found-archaeologists/.

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. 2002. Federal Student Loans: Flexible Agreements with Guaranty Agencies Warrant Careful Evaluation. GAO-02-254. 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

Walters, Linda Ann. 2015. “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Employee Attitudes, Awareness, and Satisfaction with Regard to the University Employee Wellness Program.” 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

Hodara, Susan. 2016. “The Art Speaks, and the Poetry Paints a Picture.” New York Times, March 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2002; Wilks and Golovkina 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wilks and Golovkina 2015)
Three authors: (Laine, Breuer, and Piilo 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bartels et al. 2009)

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