How to format your references using the Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 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

Fenchel, Tom. 2003. “Microbiology. Biogeography for Bacteria.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5635): 925–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberman, Nira, and Yaacov Trope. 2008. “The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5905): 1201–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lou, Xuelin, Volker Scheuss, and Ralf Schneggenburger. 2005. “Allosteric Modulation of the Presynaptic Ca2+ Sensor for Vesicle Fusion.” Nature 435 (7041): 497–501.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Krupa, David J., Michael C. Wiest, Marshall G. Shuler, Mark Laubach, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis. 2004. “Layer-Specific Somatosensory Cortical Activation during Active Tactile Discrimination.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5679): 1989–1992.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malhotra, Girish. 2010. Chemical Process Simplification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wittmann, Christoph, and Rainer Krull, eds. 2010. Biosystems Engineering II: Linking Cellular Networks and Bioprocesses. Vol. 121. Advances in Biochemical Engineering / Biotechnology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quoos, Maciej, Iwona Pozniak-Koszalka, Leszek Koszalka, and Andrzej Kasprzak. 2015. “Multiple Classifier System with Metaheuristic Algorithms.” In Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, edited by Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Marina L. Gavrilova, Ana Maria Alves Coutinho Rocha, Carmelo Torre, David Taniar, and Bernady O. Apduhan, 43–54. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: 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 Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “World’s Oldest Blood Cells Preserved in Ötzi the Iceman.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 9.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Business Continuity and Contingency Plans and Day One Strategies. T-AIMD-00-40. 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

Detoya, Maria Stephanie. 2017. “Canned Food Choices of College Students Using the Nuval ® Nutrient-Profiling System.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Fernandez, Manny, and Ashley Southall. 2015. “Suspect Dead After Gun and Bomb Attack on Dallas Police.” New York Times, June 14, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenchel 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fenchel 2003; Liberman and Trope 2008).

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

Two authors: (Liberman and Trope 2008)
Three authors: (Lou, Scheuss, and Schneggenburger 2005)
4 or more authors: (Krupa et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Abbreviation	Debatte
ISSN (print)	0965-156X
ISSN (online)	1469-3712
Scope	History Cultural Studies