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

Rochelle, Gary T. 2009. “Amine Scrubbing for CO2 Capture.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5948): 1652–1654.

A journal article with 2 authors

Voit, G. M., and G. L. Bryan. 2001. “Regulation of the X-Ray Luminosity of Clusters of Galaxies by Cooling and Supernova Feedback.” Nature 414 (6862): 425–427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Day, M., R. Langston, and R. G. M. Morris. 2003. “Glutamate-Receptor-Mediated Encoding and Retrieval of Paired-Associate Learning.” Nature 424 (6945): 205–209.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fève, G., A. Mahé, J-M Berroir, T. Kontos, B. Plaçais, D. C. Glattli, A. Cavanna, B. Etienne, and Y. Jin. 2007. “An On-Demand Coherent Single-Electron Source.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5828): 1169–1172.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scanlan, Eugene A. 2009. Fundraising Consultants. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hayat, S., and A. Ahmad, eds. 2007. Salicylic Acid: A Plant Hormone. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Riggs, Henry. 2009. “What Are the Institutional Obstacles to the Integration of Academic Science and Industry?” In Integrated Science: New Approaches to Education, edited by David J. Marcey and Michael C. Shaw, 53–66. 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 Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2017. “Researchers Plan To Bring The Caspian Tiger Back From The Dead.” 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. 1990. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise. T-RCED-90-111. 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

Mazza, Cristina A. 2011. “The Influence of Meteorological Parameters on Rainfall and Severe Weather in Pinellas County, FL.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “In Seeking Taxes, New York Challenges India and Mongolia in U.S. Supreme Court.” New York Times, April 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rochelle 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rochelle 2009; Voit and Bryan 2001).

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

Two authors: (Voit and Bryan 2001)
Three authors: (Day, Langston, and Morris 2003)
4 or more authors: (Fève 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