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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intercultural Studies (JICS). 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

Clayton, D.D., 2000. We Have Touched the Dust from Dying Stars. Nature, 404 (6776), 329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Panstruga, R. and Dodds, P.N., 2009. Terrific Protein Traffic: The Mystery of Effector Protein Delivery by Filamentous Plant Pathogens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324 (5928), 748–750.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ioannou, C.C., Guttal, V., and Couzin, I.D., 2012. Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337 (6099), 1212–1215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rems, L., Ušaj, M., Kandušer, M., Reberšek, M., Miklavčič, D., and Pucihar, G., 2013. Cell Electrofusion Using Nanosecond Electric Pulses. Scientific reports, 3, 3382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Candy, J.V., 2005. Model-Based Signal Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Villatoro, D., Sabater-Mir, J., and Sichman, J.S., eds., 2012. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XII: International Workshop, MABS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, C., Song, J., and Lee, H.-W., 2014. TSV Interface for DRAM. In: H.-W. Lee and J. Song, eds. High-Bandwidth Memory Interface. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 77–86.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Hummingbirds Are More Efficient Than Helicopters When It Comes To Hovering. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hummingbirds-are-more-efficient-helicopters-when-it-comes-hovering/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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, 2005. GAO Update on the Number of Prekindergarten Care and Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, No. GAO-05-678R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Benware, A., 2017. The Roles of Teaching Experience and Authoritative Classroom Management Style on Student Discipline. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois 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

Williams, J., 2016. A Comedian’s Embroidered Life. New York Times, 21 Dec, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clayton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Clayton 2000; Panstruga and Dodds 2009).

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

Two authors: (Panstruga and Dodds 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rems et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intercultural Studies
ISSN (print)	0725-6868
ISSN (online)	1469-9540
Scope