How to format your references using the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM). 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

Schreiner, P. R. (2010). Chemistry. Cooperativity tames reactive catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 965–966.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cirac, J. I., & Zoller, P. (2000). A scalable quantum computer with ions in an array of microtraps. Nature, 404(6778), 579–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier, A. E., GrandPre, T., & Strittmatter, S. M. (2001). Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature, 409(6818), 341–346.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lachner, M., O’Carroll, D., Rea, S., Mechtler, K., & Jenuwein, T. (2001). Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins. Nature, 410(6824), 116–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro, L. A., & Pagliaro, A. M. (2011). Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sen, S. (2016). Hyper-lattice Algebraic Model for Data Warehousing (A. Cortesi & N. Chaki, Eds.; 1st ed. 2016). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreopoulos, B., An, A., & Wang, X. (2007). Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering of Categorical Data and a Simplification. In Z.-H. Zhou, H. Li, & Q. Yang (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 11th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2007, Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 11–22). 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 Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, March 31). Half Of All Flying Fox Species Are At Risk Of Extinction. IFLScience; IFLScience. Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/half-of-all-flying-fox-species-are-at-risk-of-extinction/

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. (1998). Intercity Passenger Rail: Outlook for Improving Amtrak’s Financial Health (T-RCED-98-134). 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

Ramos, E. (2013). Emergency department utilization among Medicare enrollees: A project report [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, March 30). Elena Ferrante Series Is Coming to HBO. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schreiner, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cirac et al., 2000; Schreiner, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cirac et al., 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lachner et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
ISSN (print)	1072-8325
ISSN (online)	1940-431X
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