How to format your references using the Diaspora Studies citation style

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

Bohannon, John. 2009. “The Gonzo Scientist. Results from the Science Dance Match-up Challenge.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5932): 1262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jørgensen, Helle F., and Amanda G. Fisher. 2010. “Can Controversies Be Put to REST?” Nature 467 (7311): E3-4; discussion E5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finn, C. A., T. W. Sisson, and M. Deszcz-Pan. 2001. “Aerogeophysical Measurements of Collapse-Prone Hydrothermally Altered Zones at Mount Rainier Volcano.” Nature 409 (6820): 600–603.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Popesco, Magdalena C., Erik J. Maclaren, Janet Hopkins, Laura Dumas, Michael Cox, Lynne Meltesen, Loris McGavran, Gerald J. Wyckoff, and James M. Sikela. 2006. “Human Lineage-Specific Amplification, Selection, and Neuronal Expression of DUF1220 Domains.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5791): 1304–1307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marx, Felix G., Olivier Lambert, and Mark D. Uhen. 2016. Cetacean Paleobiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Meersman, Robert, Zahir Tari, and Pilar Herrero, eds. 2007. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 4805. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, Prabhat. 2013. “From Punch to Mat^lvālā: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format.” In Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair, edited by Hans Harder and Barbara Mittler, 75–110. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Diaspora Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Should A Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers In A ‘Greater Good’ Scenario?” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 26.

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. 2009. Financial Management Systems: OMB’s Financial Management Line of Business Initiative Continues but Future Success Remains Uncertain. GAO-09-328. 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

Kramer, Kurt A. 2010. “System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform.” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2017. “False Rumors Are Flying About Insurance Claims.” New York Times, August 29, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2009; Jørgensen and Fisher 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jørgensen and Fisher 2010)
Three authors: (Finn, Sisson, and Deszcz-Pan 2001)
4 or more authors: (Popesco et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Diaspora Studies
ISSN (print)	0973-9572
ISSN (online)	0976-3457
Scope	History Geography, Planning and Development Demography Political Science and International Relations