How to format your references using the Journalism Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journalism Studies. 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

Mervis, Jeffrey. 2015. “Funding. NIH Program Fails to Launch Blacks in Biotech.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6263): 896.

A journal article with 2 authors

Svenning, Jens-Christian, and Richard Condit. 2008. “Ecology. Biodiversity in a Warmer World.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5899): 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn, K. H., T. Lookman, and A. R. Bishop. 2004. “Strain-Induced Metal-Insulator Phase Coexistence in Perovskite Manganites.” Nature 428 (6981): 401–404.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nielsen, E. E., M. M. Hansen, C. Schmidt, D. Meldrup, and P. Grønkjaer. 2001. “Fisheries. Population of Origin of Atlantic Cod.” Nature 413 (6853): 272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sattler, Klaus. 2005. Thermische Trennverfahren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Barberousse, Anouk, Michel Morange, and Thomas Pradeu, eds. 2009. Mapping the Future of Biology: Evolving Concepts and Theories. Vol. 266. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Déjean, Hervé. 2012. “Using Page Breaks for Book Structuring.” In Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, and Ralf Schenkel, 57–67. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Journalism Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2017. “Dark Humor Is Indicative Of A High IQ, According To Study.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dark-humor-is-indicative-of-a-high-iq-according-to-study/.

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. 1991. Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues. RCED-91-152. 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

Alameddine, Abir. 2013. “Perceptions of Executives from Seven Selected Companies of the Use of Social Media in Marketing Practices.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Brantley, Ben, Jesse Green, and Alexis Soloski. 2017. “Too Soon? Or Right on Cue?” New York Times, August 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis 2015; Svenning and Condit 2008).

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

Two authors: (Svenning and Condit 2008)
Three authors: (Ahn, Lookman, and Bishop 2004)
4 or more authors: (Nielsen et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journalism Studies
Abbreviation	Journal. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1461-670X
ISSN (online)	1469-9699
Scope	Communication