How to format your references using the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 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

Clapham, D. E. (2015). Structural biology: Pain-sensing TRPA1 channel resolved. Nature, 520(7548), 439–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, E. W., & British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk. (2003). Ocean science. Whither Antarctic sea ice? Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5648), 1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harbaugh, W. T., Mayr, U., & Burghart, D. R. (2007). Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5831), 1622–1625.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sun, S., Li, F., Liu, F., Wang, J., & Peng, X. (2014). Fluorescence detecting of paraquat using host-guest chemistry with cucurbit[8]uril. Scientific Reports, 4, 3570.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crook, T., & Kemp, P. A. (2010). Transforming Private Landlords. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Poole, S., Hernandez, O., & Shamis, P. (Eds.). (2014). OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies. Experiences, Implementations, and Tools: First Workshop, OpenSHMEM 2014, Annapolis, MD, USA, March 4-6, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8356). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Takruri, M., Aboura, K., & Challa, S. (2008). Distributed Recursive Algorithm for Auto Calibration in Drift Aware Wireless Sensor Networks. In K. Elleithy (Ed.), Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (pp. 21–25). Springer Netherlands.

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 Intercultural Communication Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017, May 18). Watch This Mother Grey Whale Defend Her Calf From Attacking Orcas. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-this-mother-grey-whale-defend-her-calf-from-attacking-orcas/

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. (1991). Medical ADP Systems: Changes in Composite Health Care System’s Deployment Strategy Are Unwise (IMTEC-91-47). 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

Reyes, J. (2009). Connections: A grant proposal for mothers struggling with substance abuse in the child welfare system [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

Wilson, M. (2017, October 10). In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham, 2015; Wolff & British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wolff & British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Abbreviation	J. Intercult. Commun. Res.
ISSN (print)	1747-5759
ISSN (online)	1747-5767
Scope	Communication Cultural Studies