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

Chergui, M. ‘Chemistry. Controlling Biological Functions’. Science 313.5791 (2006): 1246–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, M., and R. Tjian. ‘Transcription Regulation and Animal Diversity’. Nature 424.6945 (2003): 147–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bielawski, C.W., D. Benitez, and R.H. Grubbs. ‘An “Endless” Route to Cyclic Polymers’. Science 297.5589 (2002): 2041–4.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Lin, Y., H. Skaff, T. Emrick, A.D. Dinsmore, and T.P. Russell. ‘Nanoparticle Assembly and Transport at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces’. Science 299.5604 (2003): 226–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pande, A., and B. Wolshon. Traffic Engineering Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Carro, M., and R. Peña, eds. Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 12th International Symposium, PADL 2010, Madrid, Spain, January 18-19, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 5937 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Mashiko, H., M.J. Bell, A.R. Beck, D.M. Neumark, and S.R. Leone. ‘Frequency Tunable Attosecond Apparatus’. Pages 49–63 in Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume X. Edited by K. Yamanouchi, G.G. Paulus, and D. Mathur. Springer Series in Chemical Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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

Evans, K. ‘Aerial Survey Shows Huge Pacific “Garbage Patch” Is Even Bigger Than Thought’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 5 October 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/aerial-survey-shows-huge-pacific-garbage-patch-is-even-bigger-than-thought/.

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. School Improvement Grants: Education Should Take Additional Steps to Enhance Accountability for Schools and Contractors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 11, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nesbit, P.R. ‘Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A Fresh Approach to Photogrammetry’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Johnson, G. ‘What Made Him Tick’. New York Times, 30 June 2013.

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