How to format your references using the National Identities citation style

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

Burnell, J. B. (2007). Astronomy. Pulsars 40 years on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 579–581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pisharody, S. N., & Jones, R. R. (2004). Probing two-electron dynamics of an atom. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 813–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cabernard, C., Prehoda, K. E., & Doe, C. Q. (2010). A spindle-independent cleavage furrow positioning pathway. Nature, 467(7311), 91–94.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alemseged, Z., Spoor, F., Kimbel, W. H., Bobe, R., Geraads, D., Reed, D., & Wynn, J. G. (2006). A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature, 443(7109), 296–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bagdonavičius, V., Kruopis, J., & Nikulin, M. S. (2011). Non-parametric Tests for Censored Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jin, D., & Lin, S. (Eds.). (2013). Advances in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering: Volume 3 (Vol. 178). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aziz, A. A., Klein, M. C. A., & Treur, J. (2011). Intelligent Configuration of Social Support Networks Around Depressed Persons. In M. Peleg, N. Lavrač, & C. Combi (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 24–34). 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 National Identities.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, July 16). Rosetta Spacecraft Snaps New Horizons At Pluto From Five Billion Kilometers Away. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-takes-image-new-horizons-pluto-5-billion-kilometers-away/

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). November 1988 Internet Computer Virus and the Vulnerability of National Telecommunications Networks to Computer Viruses (T-IMTEC-89-10). 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

Cornelius, D. A. (2014). The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Crow, K. (2003, January 5). Making Sure Food Is as Italian As Caruso. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burnell, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Burnell, 2007; Pisharody & Jones, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pisharody & Jones, 2004)
Three authors: (Cabernard et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Alemseged et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	National Identities
ISSN (print)	1460-8944
ISSN (online)	1469-9907
Scope	History General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science