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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS). 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	Download the output style file
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

ELDERFIELD, H. (2010) ‘Climate. Seawater chemistry and climate’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327(5969): 1092–1093.

A journal article with 2 authors

GRANT, P. R. and GRANT, B. R. (2006) ‘Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5784): 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

LIN, X., FAUQUÉ, B. and BEHNIA, K. (2015) ‘SOLID-STATE PHYSICS. Scalable T² resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349(6251): 945–948.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

CHRISTIAEN, L., DAVIDSON, B., KAWASHIMA, T., POWELL, W., NOLLA, H., VRANIZAN, K. and LEVINE, M. (2008) ‘The transcription/migration interface in heart precursors of Ciona intestinalis’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5881): 1349–1352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

SPEIGHT, J. G. (2017) Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

MUKHERJEE, S., AARTS, R. M., ROOVERS, R., WIDDERSHOVEN, F. and OUWERKERK, M. (eds) (2006) AmIware Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

PERUMAL, J. (2012) ‘Identity, Identification and Sociolinguistic Practices’. In Roux, C. (ed) Safe Spaces: Human Rights Education in Diverse Contexts. Rotterdam, SensePublishers, pp. 63–82.

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 Refugee Studies.

Blog post

ANDREW, E. (2015) Newly Emerged Island Could Be A ‘Natural Lab’ To Study Evolution. 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) Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Inspection Management System Lacks Adequate Oversight. RCED-90-36. 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

O’LEARY, J. J. (2012) Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization.

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

GUSTINES, G. G. (2015) Iceman Comes Out. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elderfield 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Grant and Grant 2006; Elderfield 2010).

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

Two authors: (Grant and Grant 2006)
Three or more authors: (Christiaen and others 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Refugee Studies
ISSN (print)	0951-6328
ISSN (online)	1471-6925
Scope