How to format your references using the International Studies Perspectives citation style

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

Farr, N. L. (2000) Questioning Placebo Controls. Science (New York, N.Y.) 288: 1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mehta, Mausmi P., and John A. Baross. (2006) Nitrogen Fixation at 92 Degrees C by a Hydrothermal Vent Archaeon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 1783–1786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lekic, Vedran, Scott W. French, and Karen M. Fischer. (2011) Lithospheric Thinning beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 783–787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kroodsma, David A., Juan Mayorga, Timothy Hochberg, Nathan A. Miller, Kristina Boerder, Francesco Ferretti, Alex Wilson, Bjorn Bergman, Timothy D. White, Barbara A. Block, Paul Woods, Brian Sullivan, Christopher Costello, and Boris Worm. (2018) Response to Comment on “Tracking the Global Footprint of Fisheries.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt, Glenn J., and Wayne P. Johnson. (2011) Making Sense of Data III. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Helming, Katharina, Marta Pérez-Soba, and Paul Tabbush, Eds. (2008) Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lindquist, Sinna, Bo Westerlund, Yngve Sundblad, Helena Tobiasson, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, and Wendy Mackay. (2007) Co-Designing Communication Technology with and for Families – Methods, Experience, Results and Impact. In The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Norbert Streitz, Achilles Kameas, and Irene Mavrommati. 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 Studies Perspectives.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. (2016) How Can The UK Government Meet Its Legal Air Pollution Targets? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-can-the-uk-government-meet-its-legal-air-pollution-targets/. (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. (1975) Federal Communications Commission’s Effort To Implement the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. 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

Katavic, Ivica. (2014) Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Case Study of the Cement Industry. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Protess, Ben. (2016) Apollo Global Settles Securities Case as the S.E.C. Imposes a $53 Million Fine. New York Times: B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Farr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Farr 2000; Mehta and Baross 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mehta and Baross 2006)
Three authors: (Lekic, French, and Fischer 2011)
7 or more authors: (Kroodsma, Mayorga, Hochberg, Miller, Boerder, Ferretti, et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Perspectives
ISSN (print)	1528-3585
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