How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ethnic and Migration 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

Nieto, M. Angela. 2013. “Epithelial Plasticity: A Common Theme in Embryonic and Cancer Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6159): 1234850.

A journal article with 2 authors

Derse, David, and Gisela Heidecker. 2003. “Virology. Forced Entry--or Does HTLV-I Have the Key?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5613): 1670–1671.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depew, Michael J., Thomas Lufkin, and John L. R. Rubenstein. 2002. “Specification of Jaw Subdivisions by Dlx Genes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5592): 381–385.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Katona, Gergely, Philippe Carpentier, Vincent Nivière, Patricia Amara, Virgile Adam, Jérémy Ohana, Nikolay Tsanov, and Dominique Bourgeois. 2007. “Raman-Assisted Crystallography Reveals End-on Peroxide Intermediates in a Nonheme Iron Enzyme.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5823): 449–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Will, Heike. 2011. »Sei Naiv Und Mach’ Ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Oliveira, Leiva Casemiro. 2015. Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: A Materials Guide to Design and Optimization. Edited by Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima, Carsten Thirstrup, and Helmut Franz Neff. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lyytinen, Kalle. 2009. “Section 1: Fundamental Concepts of Design.” In Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective: Design Requirements Workshop, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 3-6, 2007, Revised and Invited Papers, edited by Kalle Lyytinen, Pericles Loucopoulos, John Mylopoulos, and Bill Robinson, 88–90. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 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 Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “What Have Cats Ever Done For Us?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-have-cats-ever-done-for-us/.

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. 2011. Electronic Government: Performance Measures for Projects Aimed at Promoting Innovation and Transparency Can Be Improved. GAO-11-775. 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

Binney, Ishaque. 2014. “Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Work Engagement and Turnover Intentions in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Case Study.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Grynbaum, Michael M., and Daniel Victor. 2017. “Fox News Retracts Theory On Killing of D.N.C. Aide.” New York Times, May 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nieto 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Nieto 2013; Derse and Heidecker 2003).

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

Two authors: (Derse and Heidecker 2003)
Three authors: (Depew, Lufkin, and Rubenstein 2002)
4 or more authors: (Katona et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Abbreviation	J. Ethn. Migr. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1369-183X
ISSN (online)	1469-9451
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Demography