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

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

Smaglik, Paul. 2002. “An Electoral Lecture.” Nature 420 (6915): 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Florence, T. J., and Michael B. Reiser. 2015. “Neuroscience: Hot on the Trail of Temperature Processing.” Nature 519 (7543): 296–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, Hyokeun, Yulong Li, and Richard W. Tsien. 2012. “Influence of Synaptic Vesicle Position on Release Probability and Exocytotic Fusion Mode.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6074): 1362–66.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Trepanier, Catherine, Gang Lei, Yu-Feng Xie, and John F. MacDonald. 2013. “Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Modify N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors via Src Kinase.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abulencia, J. Patrick, and Louis Theodore. 2015. Open-Ended Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vliet, Bas van, Gert Spaargaren, and Peter Oosterveer, eds. 2010. Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisher, Michael, Chiara Ghidini, and Antony Kakoudakis. 2006. “Dynamic Team Formation in Executable Agent-Based Systems.” In Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective, edited by Christopher A. Rouff, Michael Hinchey, James Rash, Walter Truszkowski, and Diana Gordon-Spears. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. 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 Quarterly.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Daddy Longlegs Make Glue to Trap Springy Prey.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 7. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/daddy-longlegs-make-glue-trap-jumpy-prey/.

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. 2006. Commercial Aviation: Costs and Major Factors Influencing Infrastructure Changes at U.S. Airports to Accomodate the New A380 Aircraft. GAO-06-571. 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

Pratt, Jill Elizabeth. 2014. “Investigating Educational Systems, Leadership, and School Culture: A Holistic Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix.

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

Sturm, James. 2017. “On the Move.” New York Times, May 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Florence and Reiser 2015).

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

Two authors: (Florence and Reiser 2015)
Three authors: (Park et al. 2012)
4 or more authors: (Trepanier et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Quarterly
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Q.
ISSN (print)	1468-2478
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations