How to format your references using the Feminist Theory citation style

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

England, John (2010) ‘Canada needs a polar policy’. Nature, 463(7278): 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos, Jonathan B., and Ricklefs, Robert E. (2009) ‘Adaptation and diversification on islands’. Nature, 457(7231): 830–836.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herrmann, Benedikt, Thöni, Christian, and Gächter, Simon (2008) ‘Antisocial punishment across societies’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868): 1362–1367.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Scheerer, Patrick, Park, Jung Hee, Hildebrand, Peter W., et al. (2008) ‘Crystal structure of opsin in its G-protein-interacting conformation’. Nature, 455(7212): 497–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher, Markus, and Wolf, Alexander (2014) Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Barman, Nilay Kanti (2016) Coastal Morphodynamics: Integrated Spatial Modeling on the Deltaic Balasore Coast, India. eds. Chatterjee, Soumendu and Paul, Ashis Kumar. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ehara, Takekazu (2005) ‘Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States’. In: Welch, Anthony (ed) The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 59–69.

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 Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise (2013, October 2) ‘Wolf Howling’. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolf-howling/ (accessed 30 October 2018). IFLScience.

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 (2014) Federal Retirement Processing: Applying Information Technology Acquisition Best Practices Could Help OPM Overcome a Long History of Unsuccessful Modernization Efforts (No. GAO-15-277T). 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

Moore, Austin Malone (2010) Assessing the demand for simplified stormwater modeling tools within the design profession to facilitate the adoption of sustainable stormwater practices (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Zajac, Mary K. (2012, December 30) ‘Cara Shepley and Genshi Ezawa’. New York Times,: ST9. p. ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (England, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (England, 2010; Losos and Ricklefs, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Losos and Ricklefs, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Scheerer et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Feminist Theory
ISSN (print)	1464-7001
ISSN (online)	1741-2773
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