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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intercultural Studies (JICS). 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

Baker, J., 2007. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water, Water, Not Everywhere? Introduction to Special Issue. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317 (5845), 1705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, G.L. and Lapadat, R., 2002. Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathways Mediated by ERK, JNK, and P38 Protein Kinases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298 (5600), 1911–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dyall, S.D., Brown, M.T., and Johnson, P.J., 2004. Ancient Invasions: From Endosymbionts to Organelles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304 (5668), 253–257.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, W., Xu, Z., Huang, J., Lin, X., Luo, R., Chen, C.-H., and Shi, P., 2014. NeuroArray: A Universal Interface for Patterning and Interrogating Neural Circuitry with Single Cell Resolution. Scientific reports, 4, 4784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertein, J.-C. and Ceschi, R., 2013. Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reitz, J.G., 2009. Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity. 1st ed. Raymond Breton, Karen K. Dion, Kenneth L. Dion, Mai B. Phan, and Rupa Banerjee, eds. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Schär, M.O. and Rodeo, S.A., 2014. Biology of Injury and Repair of Soft Tissues of the Shoulder. In: G. Milano and A. Grasso, eds. Shoulder Arthroscopy: Principles and Practice. London: Springer, 59–72.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Scientists at the National Ignition Facility Have Produced a Record Fusion Energy Yield, Bringing Us Closer to Fusion Power. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-national-ignition-facility-have-produced-record-fusion-energy-yield-bringing-us/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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, 2003. Head Start: Increased Percentage of Teachers Nationwide Have Required Degrees, but Better Information on Classroom Teachers’ Qualifications Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, No. GAO-04-5.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zhu, H., 2012. Outcomes of China Free Antiretroviral Treatment Program, 2003–2010. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. ‘La La Land’ Music Jumps to No. 2. New York Times, 16 Jan, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson and Lapadat 2002; Baker 2007).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Lapadat 2002)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intercultural Studies
ISSN (print)	0725-6868
ISSN (online)	1469-9540
Scope