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

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

Fenton, Norman. (2011) Science and Law: Improve Statistics in Court. Nature 479: 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo, Maureen E., and Jerry X. Mitrovica. (2012) Collapse of Polar Ice Sheets during the Stage 11 Interglacial. Nature 483: 453–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Qiao, Nevine A. Shalaby, and Michael Buszczak. (2014) Changes in rRNA Transcription Influence Proliferation and Cell Fate within a Stem Cell Lineage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 298–301.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tian, Na, Zhi-You Zhou, Shi-Gang Sun, Yong Ding, and Zhong Lin Wang. (2007) Synthesis of Tetrahexahedral Platinum Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets and High Electro-Oxidation Activity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 732–735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink, Johannes Karl. (2016) Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Santiago-Fandiño, V., H. Tanaka, and M. Spiske, Eds. (2016) 14 Tsunamis and Earthquakes in Coastal Environments: Significance and Restoration. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Moise, Diana, and Alexandra Carpen-Amarie. (2012) MapReduce Applications in the Cloud: A Cost Evaluation of Computation and Storage. In Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems: 5th International Conference, Globe 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 5-6, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Abdelkader Hameurlain, Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Franck Morvan, and A. Min Tjoa. 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 Review.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. (2015) This Is What A World Map Looks Like When Scaled According To Population Size. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-map-scaled-population-size/. (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. (2013) Information Resellers: Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace. 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

Liao, Xiaoqun. (2006) Creative Learning for Intelligent Robots. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati.

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

Koblin, John, and Michael M. Grynbaum. (2016) How NBC Was Scooped on Its Own ‘Access Hollywood’ Trump Video. 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 (Fenton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fenton 2011; Raymo and Mitrovica 2012).

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

Two authors: (Raymo and Mitrovica 2012)
Three authors: (Zhang, Shalaby, and Buszczak 2014)
7 or more authors: (Tian, Zhou, Sun, Ding, and Wang 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Review
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1468-2486
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations