How to format your references using the Contemporary Jewry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Jewry. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lazar, Mitchell A. 2005. How obesity causes diabetes: not a tall tale. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 373–375.

A journal article with 2 authors

Picollo, Alessandra, and Michael Pusch. 2005. Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5. Nature 436: 420–423.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenton, Lori K., Paul E. Geissler, and Robert M. Haberle. 2007. Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars. Nature 446: 646–649.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Volpe, Thomas A., Catherine Kidner, Ira M. Hall, Grace Teng, Shiv I. S. Grewal, and Robert A. Martienssen. 2002. Regulation of heterochromatic silencing and histone H3 lysine-9 methylation by RNAi. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 1833–1837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, David. 2008. The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Karagiannidis, Avraam, ed. 2012. Waste to Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition Economies. Green Energy and Technology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ji, Jian, and Qiao Jin. 2014. Photo-Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers for On-Demand Drug Delivery. In Intracellular Delivery II: Fundamentals and Applications, ed. Aleš Prokop, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, and Atsushi Harada, 93–113. Fundamental Biomedical Technologies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Contemporary Jewry.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2015. Water Droplets Pop Off Gecko Skin Like Popcorn. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 6.

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. 1974. Review of Certain Aspects of the Head Start Program Operated by the Community Education Extension of Mary Holmes College, Jackson, Mississippi. B-157356. 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

Chahine, Jennifer. 2013. Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Smith, Mitch. 2014. A Kansas Town Rallies for a Modest Lifeline: A Local Grocery Store. New York Times, December 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazar 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lazar 2005; Picollo and Pusch 2005).

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

Two authors: (Picollo and Pusch 2005)
Three or more authors: (Volpe et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Jewry
Abbreviation	Contemp. Jew.
ISSN (print)	0147-1694
ISSN (online)	1876-5165
Scope	History Religious studies Anthropology Cultural Studies