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

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

Shaw, R. ‘Journal Club. A Cancer Researcher Ponders a Fundamental Connection between Nutrients and Gene Expression’. Nature 462.7275 (2009): 829.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeMeo, F.E., and B. Carry. ‘Solar System Evolution from Compositional Mapping of the Asteroid Belt’. Nature 505.7485 (2014): 629–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Couch, F.J., K.L. Nathanson, and K. Offit. ‘Two Decades after BRCA: Setting Paradigms in Personalized Cancer Care and Prevention’. Science 343.6178 (2014): 1466–70.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Monnin, T., F.L.W. Ratnieks, G.R. Jones, and R. Beard. ‘Pretender Punishment Induced by Chemical Signalling in a Queenless Ant’. Nature 419.6902 (2002): 61–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kang, C.W., and P.H. Kvam. Basic Statistical Tools for Improving Quality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Malloy, B., S. Staab, and M. van D. Brand, eds. Software Language Engineering: Third International Conference, SLE 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 12-13, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6563 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Padhan, S.K., P.K. Behera, and R.N. Mohapatra. ‘Second-Order Symmetric Duality and Variational Problems’. Pages 49–57 in Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015. Edited by R.N. Mohapatra, D.R. Chowdhury, and D. Giri. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New Delhi: Springer India, 2015.

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 Jewish Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. ‘Strange High-Speed Ripples Spotted In Distant Planetary Disc For First Time Ever’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 7 October 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-high-speed-ripples-spotted-distant-planetary-disc-first-time-ever/.

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. DOD Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 12, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yalof, B. ‘Marshaling Resources: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Online Learners’. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2012.

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

Leland, J. ‘“Weird Isn’t In Right Now”’. New York Times, 8 September 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Jewish Studies
ISSN (print)	0022-2097
ISSN (online)	2056-6689
Scope