How to format your references using the Journal of International Migration and Integration citation style

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

Scheeres, D. J. (2014). Solar system: Sandcastles in space. Nature, 512(7513), 139–140.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Franco, C., & Paternostro, M. (2013). A no-go result on the purification of quantum states. Scientific reports, 3, 1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, J., Li, W.-H., & Wu, C.-I. (2003). Comment on “Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence-accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5647), 988; author reply 988.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kishikawa, T., Otsuka, M., Yoshikawa, T., Ohno, M., Takata, A., Shibata, C., et al. (2013). Regulation of the expression of the liver cancer susceptibility gene MICA by microRNAs. Scientific reports, 3, 2739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snell, R. S., & Lemp, M. A. (1997). Clinical Anatomy of the Eye. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd,.

An edited book

Wang, H., & Sharaf, M. A. (Eds.). (2014). Databases Theory and Applications: 25th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2014, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, July 14-16, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8506). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kühn, K.-D. (2005). What is Bone Cement? In H. Malchau (Ed.), The Well-Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty: Theory and Practice (pp. 52–59). 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 International Migration and Integration.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 17). Cutting-Edge Technology Aiding Development Of Novel Synthetic Polio Vaccine. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cutting-edge-technology-aiding-development-novel-synthetic-polio-vaccine/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1988). FAA Appropriation Issues (No. T-RCED-88-35). 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

Stanford, C. J. (2008). Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, April 30). Loop Drawbridge to Try Car-Friendly Schedule. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scheeres 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Di Franco and Paternostro 2013; Scheeres 2014).

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

Two authors: (Di Franco and Paternostro 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kishikawa et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Migration and Integration
Abbreviation	J. Int. Migr. Integr.
ISSN (print)	1488-3473
ISSN (online)	1874-6365
Scope	Anthropology Cultural Studies Demography