Reference Style
Researchers are requested to follow the reference style outlined below while preparing manuscripts for Al-Qamar: A Journal of Islamic Research and Studies.
This referencing system is adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style (Notes and Bibliography system).
1. References for the First Time in the Paper
Book
Muhammad Asad, Islam at the Crossroads (Lahore: Sheikh Muhammad Ashraf, 1955), 12.
(For multi-volume works, write as: 1:12)
Journal Article
Muhammad Samiei, “Neo-Orientalism? The Relationship between the West and Islam in Our Globalized World,” Third World Quarterly 31, no. 7 (2010): 1145.
Website
McDonald’s Corporation, “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” accessed July 19, 2008,
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
Book with Editor, Translator, or Compiler (in addition to author)
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242–55.
Book with Editor, Translator, or Compiler (instead of author)
Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92.
Thesis or Dissertation
Richard E. Remedios, “Defining My Process: My Journey Through the MFA Acting Program at the University of South Carolina” (Master’s thesis, University of South Carolina, 2007), 35.
Indirect Source
Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 103, quoted in Manuel DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society (New York: Continuum, 2006), 2.
Conference Paper
Rachel Adelman, “‘Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On’: God’s Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition” (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21–24, 2009).
Book Review
David Kamp, “Deconstructing Dinner,” review of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, New York Times, April 23, 2006, Sunday Book Review, 30.
Organization, Association, or Corporation as Author
University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 100–101.
Two or More Authors
Geoffrey C. Ward, John H. Burns, and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 12.
Verse from the Qur’an
Al-Baqarah 2:15.
2. Short References (After the First Citation)
Book
Asad, Islam at the Crossroads, 13.
(For multi-volume works: 1:12)
Journal Article
Samiei, “Neo-Orientalism? The Relationship between the West and Islam in Our Globalized World,” Third World Quarterly, 1146.
Book with Editor, Translator, or Compiler (in addition to author)
Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 56.
Book with Editor, Translator, or Compiler (instead of author)
Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer, 93.
Website
McDonald’s Corporation, “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” accessed July 19, 2008,
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
Thesis or Dissertation
Remedios, “Defining My Process: My Journey Through the MFA Acting Program at the University of South Carolina,” 36.
Indirect Source
Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 104, quoted in DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society, 3.
Conference Paper
Adelman, “‘Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On’: God’s Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition.”
Book Review
Kamp, “Deconstructing Dinner,” 31.
Organization, Association, or Corporation as Author
Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., 102.
Two or More Authors
Ward, Burns, and Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945, 13.
Verse from the Qur’an
Al-Baqarah 2:15.
