How to format your references using the Feminist Media Studies citation style

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

Buckingham, Steve. 2004. “Getting the Meaning.” Nature 428 (6984): 776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephens, David J., and Victoria J. Allan. 2003. “Light Microscopy Techniques for Live Cell Imaging.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5616): 82–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ivany, L. C., W. P. Patterson, and K. C. Lohmann. 2000. “Cooler Winters as a Possible Cause of Mass Extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary.” Nature 407 (6806): 887–890.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dehlinger, G., L. Diehl, U. Gennser, H. Sigg, J. Faist, K. Ensslin, D. Grutzmacher, and E. Muller. 2000. “Intersubband Electroluminescence from Silicon-Based Quantum Cascade Structures.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5500): 2277–2280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smilansky, Saul. 2007. 10 Moral Paradoxes. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Hooper, Lisa M. 2014. Models of Psychopathology: Generational Processes and Relational Roles. Edited by Luciano L’Abate, Laura G. Sweeney, Giovanna Gianesini, and Peter J. Jankowski. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ben Mena, Tarek, Narjès Bellamine-Ben Saoud, Mohamed Ben Ahmed, and Bernard Pavard. 2007. “Towards a Methodology for Context Sensitive Systems Development.” In Modeling and Using Context: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007. Proceedings, edited by Boicho Kokinov, Daniel C. Richardson, Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, and Laure Vieu, 56–68. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Feminist Media Studies.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Couple Wake Up To Find An Unexpected Guest On Their Porch.” IFLScience, IFLScience, December 16. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/couple-wake-up-to-find-a-mountain-lion-chomping-on-a-deer-on-their-porch/.

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. 2016. Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements. GAO-16-573. 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

Merritt, Kevin M. 2017. “Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League.” 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

Oestreich, James R. 2017. “Aiding and Abetting Operatic Dabblers.” New York Times, June 7, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham 2004; Stephens and Allan 2003).

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

Two authors: (Stephens and Allan 2003)
Three authors: (Ivany, Patterson, and Lohmann 2000)
4 or more authors: (Dehlinger et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Feminist Media Studies
Abbreviation	Fem. Media Stud.
ISSN (print)	1468-0777
ISSN (online)	1471-5902
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication Gender Studies