How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies citation style

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

Burnett, Don S. 2006. “NASA Returns Rocks from a Comet.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5806): 1709–1710.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karijolich, John, and Yi-Tao Yu. 2011. “Converting Nonsense Codons into Sense Codons by Targeted Pseudouridylation.” Nature 474 (7351): 395–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fried, Stephen D., Sayan Bagchi, and Steven G. Boxer. 2014. “Extreme Electric Fields Power Catalysis in the Active Site of Ketosteroid Isomerase.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6216): 1510–1514.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cline, Melissa S., Brian Craft, Teresa Swatloski, Mary Goldman, Singer Ma, David Haussler, and Jingchun Zhu. 2013. “Exploring TCGA Pan-Cancer Data at the UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser.” Scientific Reports 3 (October 2013): 2652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thyagarajan, K. S. 2010. Still Image and Video Compression with MATLAB. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gornitz, Vivien, ed. 2009. Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Carey, Robert M., and Helmy M. Siragy. 2007. “Angiotensin AT2 Receptors in Blood Pressure Regulation.” In Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms, edited by Robert M. Carey, 75–89. 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 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2016. “Explainer: What Is Microgravity?” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 28. https://www.iflscience.com/space/explainer-what-microgravity/.

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. 1976. Cable Television and a Regulatory Policy. CED-76-124. 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

Garcia, Richard D. 2008. “Designing an Autonomous Helicopter Testbed: From Conception through Implementation.” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida.

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

Saslow, Linda. 2008. “College Where $5 Million Makes a Difference.” New York Times, March 9, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burnett 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Burnett 2006; Karijolich and Yu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Karijolich and Yu 2011)
Three authors: (Fried, Bagchi, and Boxer 2014)
4 or more authors: (Cline et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Abbreviation	J. Ethn. Migr. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1369-183X
ISSN (online)	1469-9451
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Demography