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

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

Bohannon, J. (2009). The Gonzo Scientist. Results from the science dance match-up challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grünwald, D., & Singer, R. H. (2010). In vivo imaging of labelled endogenous β-actin mRNA during nucleocytoplasmic transport. Nature, 467(7315), 604–607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ochedowski, O., Bussmann, B. K., & Schleberger, M. (2014). Graphene on mica - intercalated water trapped for life. Scientific Reports, 4, 6003.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Smith, D. M., Cusack, S., Colman, A. W., Folland, C. K., Harris, G. R., & Murphy, J. M. (2007). Improved surface temperature prediction for the coming decade from a global climate model. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 796–799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V. J., Jr, Mckinney, J. D., & Williams, K. J. (2015). FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carbone, G. (Ed.). (2013). Grasping in Robotics (Vol. 10). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zwettler, G., Track, P., Waschaurek, F., Woschitz, R., Hagmann, E., & Hinterholzer, S. (2012). Towards a Normalized Reference System in Building Construction Planning for Automated Quantitative Assessment and Optimization of Energy and Cost Efficiency. In M. Liñán Reyes, J. M. Flores Arias, J. J. González de la Rosa, J. Langer, F. J. Bellido Outeiriño, & A. Moreno-Munñoz (Eds.), IT Revolutions: Third International ICST Conference, Córdoba, Spain, March 23-25, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 39–57). 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 Gender Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 8). New Species Of Anglerfish Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-anglerfish-discovered/

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. (1978). Follow Up of Sanitary Conditions in Selected Food Industries (089017). 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

Webber, N. T. (2012). Peptide ion conformation studies and the 157 nm photofragmentation of arginine containing dipeptides [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Johnson, G. (2015, May 19). Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2009; Grünwald & Singer, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Grünwald & Singer, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Gender Studies
Abbreviation	J. Gend. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0958-9236
ISSN (online)	1465-3869
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Gender Studies