How to format your references using the International Political Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Political Sociology. 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

Hoag, Hannah. (2005) Ontario. Nature 434: 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lafuerza, Luis F., and Raul Toral. (2013) On the Effect of Heterogeneity in Stochastic Interacting-Particle Systems. Scientific reports 3: 1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, Ja-Eun, Junjie Chen, and Zhenkun Lou. (2008) DBC1 Is a Negative Regulator of SIRT1. Nature 451: 583–586.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Itatani, J., J. Levesque, D. Zeidler, Hiromichi Niikura, H. Pépin, J. C. Kieffer, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Villeneuve. (2004) Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbitals. Nature 432: 867–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aït-Kadi, Daoud, Marc Chouinard, Suzanne Marcotte, and Diane Riopel. (2012) Sustainable Reverse Logistics Network. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Carmona, René A., Pierre Del Moral, Peng Hu, and Nadia Oudjane, Eds. (2012) 12 Numerical Methods in Finance: Bordeaux, June 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bildirici, I. Oztug, Aydin Ustun, Necla Ulugtekin, H. Zahit Selvi, R. Alpay Abbak, Ilkay Bugdayci, and A. Ozgur Dogru. (2009) Compilation of Digital Elevation Model for Turkey in 3-Arc-Second Resolution by Using SRTM Data Supported with Local Elevation Data. In Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe: CEE 2009, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, edited by Georg Gartner and Felix Ortag. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 International Political Sociology.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. (2016) Male Fiddler Crabs Use Vibrations To Lure Females Into Burrows. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-fiddler-crabs-use-vibrations-lure-females-burrows/. (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) Rail Safety and Security: Some Actions Already Taken to Enhance Rail Security, but Risk-Based Plan Needed. 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

Darvish, Hossein. (2015) Smart Power Grid Synchronization with Nonlinear Estimation. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

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

McNAMARA, James. (2017) Falling Through Time. New York Times: BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2005; Lafuerza and Toral 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lafuerza and Toral 2013)
Three authors: (Kim, Chen, and Lou 2008)
7 or more authors: (Itatani, Levesque, Zeidler, Niikura, Pépin, Kieffer, et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Political Sociology
Abbreviation	Int. Polit. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	1749-5687
Scope	Sociology and Political Science