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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Peasant 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	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

Jardine, M. 2010. Astronomy. Sunscreen for the young Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5970), 1206–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hopkins, R. and M.D. Rausher. 2011. Identification of two genes causing reinforcement in the Texas wildflower Phlox drummondii. Nature, 469(7330), 411–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oganov, A.R., J.P. Brodholt, and G.D. Price. 2001. The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle. Nature, 411(6840), 934–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shri, M., R. Dave, S. Diwedi, D. Shukla, R. Kesari, R.D. Tripathi, P.K. Trivedi, and D. Chakrabarty. 2014. Heterologous expression of Ceratophyllum demersum phytochelatin synthase, CdPCS1, in rice leads to lower arsenic accumulation in grain. Scientific reports, 4, 5784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murthy, D.N.P., M. Kurvinen, and I. Töyrylä. 2016. Warranty Fraud Management: Reducing Fraud and Other Excess Costs in Warranty and Service Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barrow, C.J. and D.H. Small, eds. 2007. Abeta Peptide and Alzheimer’s Disease: Celebrating a Century of Research. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xing, Y., S. Qin, and T. Wang. 2010. Study of Subdivision Surface Modelling for Spiral Bevel Gear Manufacturing. In: G.Q. Huang, K.L. Mak, and P.G. Maropoulos, eds. Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 57–66.

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 The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016. Experiment Fails To Find Dark Matter After 20 Months Of Searching [online]. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/experiment-fails-to-find-dark-matter-after-20-months-of-searching/ [Accessed 30 Oct 2018].

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. 1976. Assessment of the Impact Aid Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, No. B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pradhan, S.H. 2017. User Interface Design, Database Connectivity, and Security in Fortified Cards. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Schmidt, M.S., M. Haberman, and M. Apuzzo. 2017. Wary of Mueller, Trump’s Team Is Investigating His Investigators. New York Times, 21 Jul, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jardine 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jardine 2010, Hopkins and Rausher 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hopkins and Rausher 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shri et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Peasant Studies
Abbreviation	J. Peasant Stud.
ISSN (print)	0306-6150
ISSN (online)	1743-9361
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Cultural Studies