How to format your references using the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 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

Sherrill, B. M. (2008). Physics. Designer atomic nuclei. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 751–752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goedert, M., & Spillantini, M. G. (2006). A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 777–781.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li de la Sierra-Gallay, I., Pellegrini, O., & Condon, C. (2005). Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z. Nature, 433(7026), 657–661.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yuan, Y.-J., Yu, Z.-T., Liu, X.-J., Cai, J.-G., Guan, Z.-J., & Zou, Z.-G. (2014). Hydrogen photogeneration promoted by efficient electron transfer from iridium sensitizers to colloidal MoS2 catalysts. Scientific Reports, 4, 4045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raynaud, H., & Arrow, K. J. (2011). Managerial Logic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alberts, D., & Hess, L. M. (Eds.). (2014). Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention (3rd ed. 2014). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kühne, K., & Sadowski, D. (2011). Scandalous Co-determination. In A. Brink (Ed.), Corporate Governance and Business Ethics (pp. 75–87). Springer Netherlands.

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 Diversity in Higher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 16). UN Meets Target To Treat 15 million People With HIV. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1976). Status of Budget Authority Involved in Three Rescissions (OGC-77-2). 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

Wilkins, D. (2015). The Value of the Semantic Differential to the Art Educator [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Williams, J. (2017, October 29). A Nazi Script Comes to Light. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sherrill, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goedert & Spillantini, 2006; Sherrill, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Goedert & Spillantini, 2006)
Three authors: (Li de la Sierra-Gallay et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
Abbreviation	J. Divers. High. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1938-8926
ISSN (online)	1938-8934
Scope	Education