How to format your references using the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 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

Bretag, A. H. (2007). Stem cell treatment of dystrophic dogs. Nature, 450(7173), E23; discussion E23-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S. E., & Foote, M. (2002). Determinants of extinction in the fossil record. Nature, 416(6879), 420–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coyte, K. Z., Schluter, J., & Foster, K. R. (2015). The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6261), 663–666.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hallam, S. J., Putnam, N., Preston, C. M., Detter, J. C., Rokhsar, D., Richardson, P. M., & DeLong, E. F. (2004). Reverse methanogenesis: testing the hypothesis with environmental genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5689), 1457–1462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte, S. A. (2015). Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dix, J., & Witteveen, C. (Eds.). (2010). Multiagent System Technologies: 8th German Conference, MATES 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6251). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira, L. B., Fernandes, J. R., Filanovsky, I. M., Verhoeven, C. J. M., & Silva, M. M. (2008). Quadrature LC-Oscillator. In J. R. Fernandes, I. M. Filanovsky, C. J. M. Verhoeven, & M. M. Silva (Eds.), Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators (pp. 81–98). 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 Intercultural Communication Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 26). Ancient Temples Reveal Earthquake History. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ancient-temples-reveal-earthquake-history/

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. (1989). Information Technology and Government Operations (138539). 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

Pak, C. H. (2015). A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Thomas, K. (2011, July 17). Ready to Take a Faithful Leap. New York Times, ST6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bretag, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bretag, 2007; Peters & Foote, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Peters & Foote, 2002)
Three authors: (Coyte et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Hallam et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Abbreviation	J. Intercult. Commun. Res.
ISSN (print)	1747-5759
ISSN (online)	1747-5767
Scope	Communication Cultural Studies