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

Kormendy, J. (2000). ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Monsters at the Heart of Galaxy Formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5484), 1484–1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schindler, D. E., & Hilborn, R. (2015). Sustainability. Prediction, precaution, and policy under global change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6225), 953–954.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dloniak, S. M., French, J. A., & Holekamp, K. E. (2006). Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature, 440(7088), 1190–1193.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Henry Huang, X. M., Zorman, C. A., Mehregany, M., & Roukes, M. L. (2003). Nanoelectromechanical systems: Nanodevice motion at microwave frequencies. Nature, 421(6922), 496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kubicek, C. P. (2012). Fungi and Lignocellulosic Biomass. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Layne, P. C., & Lake, P. (Eds.). (2015). Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Transgressing Boundaries (Vol. 11). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bedinger, P. A., & Fowler, J. E. (2009). The Maize Male Gametophyte. In J. L. Bennetzen & S. C. Hake (Eds.), Handbook of Maize: Its Biology (pp. 57–77). 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 Diversity in Higher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 28). Octopus And Squid Populations Are Booming – Here’s Why. 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. (1979). Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing Equipment at Federal Judicial Center (B-193861). 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

Lowrance, T. L. (2017). Exploring the Four Modes of Organizational Forgetting in an Organization Post Acquisition [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

Baker, A. L. (2014, March 31). Push to Rid City of Classrooms That Are Anything but Temporary. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kormendy, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kormendy, 2000; Schindler & Hilborn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schindler & Hilborn, 2015)
Three authors: (Dloniak et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Henry Huang et al., 2003)

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