How to format your references using the Critical Studies on Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Studies on Security. 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

Toby, S. 2001. “The Good and the Bad.” Nature 410 (6828): 523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen, Eric L. N., and Rachel Akeson. 2014. “Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Binary Star System.” Nature 511 (7511): 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, Jie, Li Shen, and Di Zheng. 2014. “Association between Vitamin C Intake and Lung Cancer: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.” Scientific Reports 4 (August 2014): 6161.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pancer, Zeev, Chris T. Amemiya, Götz R. A. Ehrhardt, Jill Ceitlin, G. Larry Gartland, and Max D. Cooper. 2004. “Somatic Diversification of Variable Lymphocyte Receptors in the Agnathan Sea Lamprey.” Nature 430 (6996): 174–180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gywat, Oliver, Hubert J. Krenner, and Jesse Berezovsky. 2009. Spins in Optically Active Quantum Dots. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lenarcic, Jadran. 2013. Robot Mechanisms. Edited by Tadej Bajd and Michael M. Stanišić. Vol. 60. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nishida, Yoshihiro. 2016. “Osteosarcoma in the Elderly: Clinical Features and Outcome.” In Osteosarcoma, edited by Takafumi Ueda and Akira Kawai, 59–71. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Critical Studies on Security.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “The Inside Of Ancient Fossil Turds Visualized In Impressive 3D.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 7.

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. 2005. Freight Transportation: Short Sea Shipping Option Shows Importance of Systematic Approach to Public Investment Decisions. GAO-05-768. Washington, DC: 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

Liza, Jessica Stephanie. 2009. “Mentors’ Perceptions of Bullying in Middle and High School Settings.” 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2013. “In Detroit Ruling, Threats to Promises and Assumptions.” New York Times, December 5, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toby 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Toby 2001; Jensen and Akeson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jensen and Akeson 2014)
Three authors: (Luo, Shen, and Zheng 2014)
4 or more authors: (Pancer et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Studies on Security
ISSN (print)	2162-4887
ISSN (online)	2162-4909
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