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

Burnett, K. (2000). Laser-matter interactions. It takes two electrons to tango. Nature, 405(6787), 631, 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kokko, H., & López-Sepulcre, A. (2006). From individual dispersal to species ranges: perspectives for a changing world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 789–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick, D. A., Shu, Y., & Yu, Y. (2007). Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature, 445(7123), E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Da Costa Dias, B., Jovanovic, K., Gonsalves, D., Moodley, K., Reusch, U., Knackmuss, S., Penny, C., Weinberg, M. S., Little, M., & Weiss, S. F. T. (2013). Anti-LRP/LR specific antibody IgG1-iS18 and knock-down of LRP/LR by shRNAs rescue cells from Aβ42 induced cytotoxicity. Scientific Reports, 3, 2702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiuwei Wu. (2013). Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles in Open Electricity Markets. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Vega, F. F. de, & Cantú-Paz, E. (Eds.). (2010). Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence (Vol. 269). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohbayashi, T., Okochi, I., Sato, H., Ono, T., & Chiba, S. (2010). Rapid decline of endemic snails in the Ogasawara Islands, Western Pacific Ocean. In K. Kawakami & I. Okochi (Eds.), Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem: Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands (pp. 27–33). Springer Japan.

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

Fang, J. (2016, May 1). Dragons Have REM Sleep Too. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dragons-have-rem-sleep-too/

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. (2006). Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (GAO-06-807). 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

Komatsuzaki, T. (2012). Borrowing constraints and the business cycle in emerging markets [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, October 6). Dissecting the Pain of Fame. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burnett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Burnett, 2000; Kokko & López-Sepulcre, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kokko & López-Sepulcre, 2006)
Three authors: (McCormick et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Da Costa Dias et al., 2013)

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