How to format your references using the International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean 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

Gal-Yam A (2012) Luminous supernovae. Science 337:927–932

A journal article with 2 authors

Enyeart PJ, Ellington AD (2011) Synthetic biology: a yeast for all reasons. Nature 477:413–414

A journal article with 3 authors

Asphaug E, Agnor CB, Williams Q (2006) Hit-and-run planetary collisions. Nature 439:155–160

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tian D, Traw MB, Chen JQ, et al (2003) Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 423:74–77

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morrow E, Boaz A, Brearley S, Ross F (2011) Handbook of Service User Involvement in Nursing and Healthcare Research. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Britten CM, Kreiter S, Diken M, Rammensee H-G (eds) (2014) Cancer Immunotherapy Meets Oncology: In Honor of Christoph Huber. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Borgelt C, Picado-Muiño D (2014) Simple Pattern Spectrum Estimation for Fast Pattern Filtering with CoCoNAD. In: Blockeel H, Leeuwen M van, Vinciotti V (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIII: 13th International Symposium, IDA 2014, Leuven, Belgium, October 30 – November 1, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–48

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 International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) New Hormone Therapy Could Slow Half of all Breast Cancers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-hormone-therapy-could-slow-half-all-breast-cancers/. 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 (2008) Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions. 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

Sullivan TJ (2017) Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Billard M (2013) His Runway Has a Backbeat. New York Times E7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gal-Yam 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Enyeart and Ellington 2011; Gal-Yam 2012).

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

Two authors: (Enyeart and Ellington 2011)
Three or more authors: (Tian et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies
ISSN (print)	1855-3362
ISSN (online)	2232-6022
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