How to format your references using the Irish Studies Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Studies Review. 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

Sassen, Kenneth. “Meteorology: Dusty Ice Clouds over Alaska.” Nature 434, no. 7032 (March 24, 2005): 456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, Steven A., and Nicholas P. Restifo. “Adoptive Cell Transfer as Personalized Immunotherapy for Human Cancer.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348, no. 6230 (April 3, 2015): 62–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed, Meaghan, Vincent Jean Pascoli, and Christian Lüscher. “Addiction Therapy. Refining Deep Brain Stimulation to Emulate Optogenetic Treatment of Synaptic Pathology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6222 (February 6, 2015): 659–64.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ahel, Ivan, Dragana Ahel, Takahiro Matsusaka, Allison J. Clark, Jonathon Pines, Simon J. Boulton, and Stephen C. West. “Poly(ADP-Ribose)-Binding Zinc Finger Motifs in DNA Repair/Checkpoint Proteins.” Nature 451, no. 7174 (January 3, 2008): 81–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holsclaw, Geoffrey. Transcending Subjects. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Jin, David, and Sally Lin, eds. Advances in Computer Science and Information Engineering: Volume 1. Vol. 168. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Marti, Urs. “Democracy in the Age of Global Markets.” In Spheres of Global Justice: Volume 1 Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy. Political Participation, Minorities and Migrations, edited by Jean-Christophe Merle, 65–74. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

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 Irish Studies Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Toxin From World’s Most Venomous Spider Could Treat Impotence.” IFLScience. IFLScience, February 19, 2015.

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. “The Management and Operation of the Runaway Youth Program Administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 7, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stahl-Kovell, Daniel W. “Reimagining Red Power: Native American Community, Activism, and Academics in Postwar America.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Branch, John. “Cheers on a Soccer Field, Far From Las Vegas.” New York Times, October 11, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Irish Studies Review
Abbreviation	Ir. Stud. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0967-0882
ISSN (online)	1469-9303
Scope	History Literature and Literary Theory Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies