How to format your references using the Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sibley, L. D. 2004. “Intracellular Parasite Invasion Strategies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5668): 248–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pellettieri, Jason, and Geraldine Seydoux. 2002. “Anterior-Posterior Polarity in C. Elegans and Drosophila--PARallels and Differences.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5600): 1946–1950.

A journal article with 3 authors

Core, Leighton J., Joshua J. Waterfall, and John T. Lis. 2008. “Nascent RNA Sequencing Reveals Widespread Pausing and Divergent Initiation at Human Promoters.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5909): 1845–1848.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Whaley, S. R., D. S. English, E. L. Hu, P. F. Barbara, and A. M. Belcher. 2000. “Selection of Peptides with Semiconductor Binding Specificity for Directed Nanocrystal Assembly.” Nature 405 (6787): 665–668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury, Sanjib. 2016. Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Feldman, Allan M. 2006. Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd Edition. 2nd Edition. Edited by Roberto Serrano. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Baeza, Isabel, and Mónica De la Fuente. 2013. “The Role of Polyphenols in Menopause.” In Nutrition and Diet in Menopause, edited by Caroline J. Hollins Martin, Ronald Ross Watson, and Victor R. Preedy, 51–63. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Researchers Are Looking To A Surprisingly Old Idea For The Next Generation Of Ships: Wind Power.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 7.

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. 1991. Air Traffic Control: Efforts to Modernize Oceanic System Delayed. IMTEC-91-2. 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

Lowry, Lisa A. 2017. “Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study.” 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, Ben. 2016. “Listen for the Ball, Then Try to Stop It.” New York Times, September 13, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibley 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sibley 2004; Pellettieri and Seydoux 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pellettieri and Seydoux 2002)
Three authors: (Core, Waterfall, and Lis 2008)
4 or more authors: (Whaley et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
ISSN (print)	0959-6410
ISSN (online)	1469-9311
Scope	Religious studies Political Science and International Relations