How to format your references using the European Journal for Security Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal for Security Research. 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

Schiermeier Q (2002) Low stocks prompt calls for North Atlantic fishing ban. Nature 419:866

A journal article with 2 authors

Hambourger M, Moore TA (2009) Chemistry. Nailing down nickel for electrocatalysis. Science 326:1355–1356

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Meng H, Bao Z (2001) Field-effect modulation of the conductance of single molecules. Science 294:2138–2140

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ray SC, Soin N, Makgato T, et al (2014) Graphene supported graphone/graphane bilayer nanostructure material for spintronics. Sci Rep 4:3862

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Will H (2011) »Sei naiv und mach’ ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Marcus A (ed) (2011) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theory, Methods, Tools and Practice: First International Conference, DUXU 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gelmetti C (2015) La dermatologia e la venereologia del secolo XVIII. In: Gelmetti C (ed) Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia. Springer, Milano, pp 75–101

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 European Journal for Security Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Shape Of A Woman’s Vagina Can Seriously Impact Her Sex Life, According To A New Study. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/shape-woman-s-vagina-effects-ability-orgasm-study-says/. 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 (2004) Transportation Security R&D: TSA and DHS Are Researching and Developing Technologies, but Need to Improve R&D Management. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hitchins MG (2017) Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Shpigel B (2016) Return to Health Fuels Cruz, and Giants Fans. New York Times SP10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2002; Hambourger and Moore 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hambourger and Moore 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ray et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Security Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Secur. Res.
ISSN (print)	2365-0931
ISSN (online)	2364-1695
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