How to format your references using the Mediterranean Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Politics. 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

Subrahmanian, V.S. (2007) Computer science. Cultural modeling in real time Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), pp. 1509–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, J., & V. Levin (2002) Seismic anisotropy: tracing plate dynamics in the mantle Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), pp. 485–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lape, R., D. Colquhoun, & L.G. Sivilotti (2008) On the nature of partial agonism in the nicotinic receptor superfamily Nature, 454(7205), pp. 722–27.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, D., S. Bae, D. Hong, H. Lim, J.H. Yoon, O. Hwang, … P.M. Kang (2013) H2O2-responsive molecularly engineered polymer nanoparticles as ischemia/reperfusion-targeted nanotherapeutic agents Scientific Reports, 3, p. 2233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk, M.K. (2014) RF Power Amplifiers (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

Driscoll, B. (2013) Entity Framework 6 Recipes (Gupta, N., R. Vettor, Z. Hirani, & L. Tenny, Eds.) (Second Edition) (Berkeley, CA: Apress).

A chapter in an edited book

Zaki, M.J. (2010) Practical Graph Mining in: Croitoru, M., S. Ferré, & D. Lukose (Eds) Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence: 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 26-30, 2010. Proceedings (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 Mediterranean Politics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, March 1) This Is What It Would Look Like If A Huge Asteroid Hit The Earth, Available at (accessed 30 October 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) Actions Taken or Needed To Curb Widespread Abuse of the Citizens Band Radio Service (No. GGD-75-88) (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

Shibata, C.L. (2017) Building positive body image in adolescent girls: An evaluation of a body image prevention program (Doctoral dissertation) California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1999, February 28) As Cupid Sheathes Arrows, Voodoo Dolls Come Out New York Times, p. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Subrahmanian, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Park & Levin, 2002; Subrahmanian, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Park & Levin, 2002)
Three authors: (Lape, Colquhoun, & Sivilotti, 2008)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mediterranean Politics
ISSN (print)	1362-9395
ISSN (online)	1743-9418
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