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

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

Storb, R. ‘Edward Donnall Thomas (1920-2012)’. Nature 491.7424 (2012): 334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turi, L., and A. Madarász. ‘Comment on “Does the Hydrated Electron Occupy a Cavity?”’ Science 331.6023 (2011): 1387; author reply 1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, D.S., J. Komdeur, and T. Burke. ‘Avian Behaviour: Altruism and Infidelity among Warblers’. Nature 422.6932 (2003): 580.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Guedes-Martins, L., A. Cunha, J. Saraiva, R. Gaio, F. Macedo, and H. Almeida. ‘Internal Iliac and Uterine Arteries Doppler Ultrasound in the Assessment of Normotensive and Chronic Hypertensive Pregnant Women’. Sci. Rep. 4 (2014): 3785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, S. How to Know. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Blockeel, H., K. Kersting, S. Nijssen, and F. Železný, eds. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 23-27, 2013, Proceedings, Part III. Vol. 8190 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimmock, D.P. ‘Deoxyguanosine Kinase’. Pages 91–102 in Mitochondrial Disorders Caused by Nuclear Genes. Edited by L.-J.C. Wong. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

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 Jewish Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, D. ‘How To Make A Cloud In Your Mouth’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 27 August 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-make-cloud-your-mouth/.

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. Department of Labor: Further Management Improvements Needed to Address Information Technology and Financial Controls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 16, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Butts, P. ‘Green Roof Vegetable Production in Three Different Growth Media’. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

St. John Kelly, E. ‘Children’s Books’. New York Times, 27 April 1997.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Jewish Studies
ISSN (print)	0022-2097
ISSN (online)	2056-6689
Scope