How to format your references using the Demography citation style

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

Finkel, E. (2000). SCIENCE FUNDING: Australian Researchers Go for the Gold. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5490), 255–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yea, S. S., & Fruman, D. A. (2011). Cell signaling. New mTOR targets Grb attention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6035), 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y., Yi, M., & Zou, X. (2014). The linear interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic noises ensures a high accuracy of cell fate selection in budding yeast. Scientific reports, 4, 5764.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Toda, M., Takagaki, A., Okamura, M., Kondo, J. N., Hayashi, S., Domen, K., & Hara, M. (2005). Green chemistry: biodiesel made with sugar catalyst. Nature, 438(7065), 178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D. A. (2014). Interpreting Land Records. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hoffmann Davis, J. (Ed.). (2016). Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jenkins, T. A., Mendelsohn, F. A. O., Albiston, A. L., & Chai, S. Y. (2007). Angiotensin IV Binding Site. In R. M. Carey (Ed.), Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms (pp. 61–74). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Demography.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 28). Why Do Only Some People Get ‘Skin Orgasms’ From Listening To Music? IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1979). Federal Research and Development Budget (No. 094379). 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

Wallace, D. R. (2006). A Comparative Analysis of a Conventional Versus a Computer-assisted Technique for Identification of Mechanical Power Press Hazards (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Williams, J. (2017, April 30). In a Watch’s Deadly Glow, a Fight for Justice. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkel 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Finkel 2000; Yea and Fruman 2011).

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

Two authors: (Yea and Fruman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Toda et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Demography
Abbreviation	Demography
ISSN (print)	0070-3370
ISSN (online)	1533-7790
Scope	Demography