How to format your references using the Annual Review of Political Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Political Science. 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

Hammerer K. 2013. Physics. Quantum mechanics tackles mechanics. Science. 342(6159):702–3

A journal article with 2 authors

Weston EM, Lister AM. 2009. Insular dwarfism in hippos and a model for brain size reduction in Homo floresiensis. Nature. 459(7243):85–88

A journal article with 3 authors

Legrand Y-M, van der Lee A, Barboiu M. 2010. Single-crystal X-ray structure of 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene by confinement in a crystalline matrix. Science. 329(5989):299–302

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samad TA, Moore KA, Sapirstein A, Billet S, Allchorne A, et al. 2001. Interleukin-1beta-mediated induction of Cox-2 in the CNS contributes to inflammatory pain hypersensitivity. Nature. 410(6827):471–75

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sue DW. 2003. Overcoming Our Racism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hayat MA, ed. 2012. Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells,Volume 3: Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury: Volume 3, Vol. 3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Rowland JH. 2007. Survivorship Research: Past, Present, and Future. In Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow, ed. PA Ganz, pp. 28–42. New York, NY: 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 Annual Review of Political Science.

Blog post

Taub B. 2016. Neanderthals May Have Held Fiery Funerals For Their Dead. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2015. Higher Education: Better Management of Federal Grant and Loan Forgiveness Programs for Teachers Needed to Improve Participant Outcomes. GAO-15-314, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson E. 2014. Transitional services for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Slotnik DE. 2013. Zvonko Busic, 67, Croatian Hijacker. New York Times, Sep. 6, , p. B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hammerer 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hammerer 2013; Weston & Lister 2009).

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

Two authors: (Weston & Lister 2009)
Three or more authors: (Samad et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Political Science
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. (Palo Alto)
ISSN (print)	1094-2939
ISSN (online)	1545-1577
Scope	Sociology and Political Science