How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary European Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary European 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

Desplan, Claude. 2007. “Time to Pick the Fly’s Brain.” Nature 450 (7167): 173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, Jungsu, and David M. Holtzman. 2010. “Medicine. Prion-like Behavior of Amyloid-Beta.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6006): 918–919.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita, Futoshi, Eiichi Fukuyama, and Kentaro Omura. 2004. “Estimation of Fault Strength: Reconstruction of Stress before the 1995 Kobe Earthquake.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5694): 261–263.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zuend, Stephan J., Matthew P. Coughlin, Mathieu P. Lalonde, and Eric N. Jacobsen. 2009. “Scaleable Catalytic Asymmetric Strecker Syntheses of Unnatural Alpha-Amino Acids.” Nature 461 (7266): 968–970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vona, Leonard W. 2017. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zajda, Joseph, ed. 2015. Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture. Vol. 13. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Tao, An Lu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Nuowei Zhang, Guilin Cheng, Ning Wang, Fenghua Liu, Kaijun Guo, and Huichuan Wang. 2012. “Effect of Spleen Deficiency Syndrome on the Expression of TLR2 and TLR4 in Rats.” In Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Practice: Volume 2, edited by Yanwen Wu, 33–39. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Contemporary European Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Large Study Explores How Often Patients Wake Up During Surgery.” IFLScience, IFLScience, December 3. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/large-study-explores-how-often-patients-wake-during-surgery/.

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. 2001. Quality Assurance: The Fastener Quality Act’s Small-Lot Exemption. GAO-01-719. 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

El-Amine, Zein. 2010. “Waking Up in Beirut.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Feeney, Kelly. 2006. “QUICK BITE/Kenilworth; So Greek, So Good.” New York Times, September 24, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Desplan 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Desplan 2007; Kim and Holtzman 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Holtzman 2010)
Three authors: (Yamashita, Fukuyama, and Omura 2004)
4 or more authors: (Zuend et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Eur. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1478-2804
ISSN (online)	1478-2790
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations