How to format your references using the Journal of Gender-Based Violence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Gender-Based Violence. 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

Spence, K. (2000) Ancient Egyptian chronology and the astronomical orientation of pyramids, Nature, 408(6810): 320–324.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman, A. and Perrimon, N. (2006) A functional RNAi screen for regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase and ERK signalling, Nature, 444(7116): 230–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski, J.A., Sloutsky, V.M. and Heckler, A.F. (2008) Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math, Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5875): 454–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kanbach, G., Straubmeier, C., Spruit, H.C. and Belloni, T. (2001) Correlated fast X-ray and optical variability in the black-hole candidate XTE J1118+480, Nature, 414(6860): 180–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie, P.R. and Keough, G.E. (2008) An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ratajczak, M.Z. (ed.) (2014) Adult Stem Cell Therapies: Alternatives to Plasticity. Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Katagi, T. (2006) Behavior of Pesticides in Water-Sediment Systems., in G.W. Ware, L.A. Albert, P. de Voogt, C.P. Gerba, O. Hutzinger, J.B. Knaak, et al (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews, . Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Springer, pp 133–251.

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 Gender-Based Violence.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014) Five Phenomenal Science Stunts Done With Dry Ice, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/five-phenomenal-science-stunts-done-dry-ice/.

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) Telecommunications: Research and Regulatory Efforts on Mobile Phone Health Issues. GAO-01-545, 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

Deolikar, P.P. (2017) Lecture Video Search Engine Using Hadoop MapReduce, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Baker, L. (2006) High Mountain Hiking With a Golden Reward, New York Times, 27 October, p F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spence, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Spence, 2000; Friedman and Perrimon, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Friedman and Perrimon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kanbach et al, 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Gender-Based Violence
ISSN (print)	2398-6808
ISSN (online)	2398-6816
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