How to format your references using the Migration and Development citation style

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

Polak, T. (2015). Help others--and help your career. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6257), 246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dotto, G. P., & Cotsarelis, G. (2005). Developmental biology. Rac1 up for epidermal stem cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5736), 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prakash, M., Quéré, D., & Bush, J. W. M. (2008). Surface tension transport of prey by feeding shorebirds: the capillary ratchet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5878), 931–934.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qin, N., Tan, X., Jiao, Y., Liu, L., Zhao, W., Yang, S., & Jia, A. (2014). RNA-Seq-based transcriptome analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilm inhibition by ursolic acid and resveratrol. Scientific Reports, 4, 5467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Ver. (2015). Beispiele zur Bemessung nach Eurocode 2. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Benneworth, P. (Ed.). (2013). University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Poulymenopoulou, M., Malamateniou, F., & Vassilacopoulos, G. (2014). Ontology-Driven Authorization Policies on Personal Health Records for Sustainable Citizen-Centered Healthcare. In D.-D. Koutsouris & A. A. Lazakidou (Eds.), Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems (pp. 43–60). 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 Migration and Development.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 16). Some Male Fiddler Crabs Trap Females In Order To Mate With Them. 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. (2004). Information Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced Systems (GAO-04-509). 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

Newcomb, S. (2009). Reliability of the CVI range: A functional vision assessment for children with cortical visual impairment [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 24). Asked to Switch Positions, Mets’ Cabrera Asks to Switch Teams. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polak, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dotto & Cotsarelis, 2005; Polak, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dotto & Cotsarelis, 2005)
Three authors: (Prakash et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Qin et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Migration and Development
Abbreviation	Migr. Dev.
ISSN (print)	2163-2324
ISSN (online)	2163-2332
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