How to format your references using the Journal of Common Market Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2005) ‘Pity Poor Postdocs’. Nature, Vol. 434, No. 7032, pp. 540–541.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suter, D. M. and Schibler, U. (2009) ‘Physiology. Feeding the Clock’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 326, No. 5951, pp. 378–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Ewing, R. C. and Becker, U. (2014) ‘Average Structure and Local Configuration of Excess Oxygen in UO(2+x)’. Scientific reports, Vol. 4, p. 4216.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Yan, L., Loukoianov, A., Blechl, A., Tranquilli, G., Ramakrishna, W., SanMiguel, P., Bennetzen, J. L., Echenique, V. and Dubcovsky, J. (2004) ‘The Wheat VRN2 Gene Is a Flowering Repressor Down-Regulated by Vernalization’. Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 303, No. 5664, pp. 1640–1644.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lippold, J. C. (2015) Welding Metallurgy and Weldability (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc).

An edited book

Harada, K., Yoshida, E. and Yokoi, K. (eds) (2010) Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots (London: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Amir, A., Eisenberg, E. and Levy, A. (2010) ‘Approximate Periodicity’. In Cheong, O., Chwa, K.-Y., and Park, K. (eds) Algorithms and Computation: 21st International Symposium, ISAAC 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 15-17, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 25–36.

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 Journal of Common Market Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016) Photographer Accidentally Captures Stunning Time-Lapse Of SpaceX Rocket Landing, IFLScience. Available at «https://www.iflscience.com/space/photographer-accidentally-captures-stunning-time-lapse-spacex-rocket-landing/».

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 (1974) ‘Administration of the Office of Education’s Student Financial Aid Program’ (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

Rawashdeh, M. Y. (2013) A Relational Framework for Clustering and Cluster Validity and the Generalization of the Silhouette Measure, Doctoral dissertation, (Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati).

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

Williams, J. (2017) ‘A Guide to Graveside Tourism’, New York Times ( 27 September 2017).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2005; Suter and Schibler, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Suter and Schibler, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Common Market Studies
Abbreviation	J. Common Mark. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0021-9886
ISSN (online)	1468-5965
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Political Science and International Relations