How to format your references using the Journal of Postcolonial Writing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 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

Horton, J. C. 2000. “Boundary Disputes.” Nature 406 (6796): 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper, A., and C. B. Stringer. 2013. “Paleontology. Did the Denisovans Cross Wallace’s Line?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6156): 321–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rowe, Timothy B., Thomas E. Macrini, and Zhe-Xi Luo. 2011. “Fossil Evidence on Origin of the Mammalian Brain.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6032): 955–957.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

van Rossum, Damian B., Randen L. Patterson, Sumit Sharma, Roxanne K. Barrow, Michael Kornberg, Donald L. Gill, and Solomon H. Snyder. 2005. “Phospholipase Cgamma1 Controls Surface Expression of TRPC3 through an Intermolecular PH Domain.” Nature 434 (7029): 99–104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attwood, Dennis, Paul Baybutt, Chris Devlin, Walter Fluharty, Gareth Hughes, Dan Isaacson, Phil Joyner, et al. 2006. Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shult, Ernest. 2015. Algebra: A Teaching and Source Book. Edited by David Surowski. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Besnard, Jean-Baptiste, Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende, Marc Pérache, and Julien Jaeger. 2016. “Gleaming the Cube: Online Performance Analysis and Visualization Using MALP.” In Tools for High Performance Computing 2015: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2015, Dresden, Germany, edited by Andreas Knüpfer, Tobias Hilbrich, Christoph Niethammer, José Gracia, Wolfgang E. Nagel, and Michael M. Resch, 53–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Postcolonial Writing.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “Solar Superflares Might Be Responsible For Life On Earth.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Aging Aircraft: FAA Needs Comprehensive Plan to Coordinate Government and Industry Actions. RCED-90-75. 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

Hantgan, Abbie. 2013. “Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. “A Whirlwind Start For St. John’s and Lavin.” New York Times, November 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Horton 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Horton 2000; Cooper and Stringer 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cooper and Stringer 2013)
Three authors: (Rowe, Macrini, and Luo 2011)
4 or more authors: (van Rossum et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Postcolonial Writing
ISSN (print)	1744-9855
ISSN (online)	1744-9863
Scope	Literature and Literary Theory