How to format your references using the Nations and Nationalism citation style

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

Sunda, W.G. 2010. ‘Oceans. Iron and the Carbon Pump’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 327, 5966: 654–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conway, G., and Toenniessen, G. 2003. ‘Agriculture. Science for African Food Security’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, 5610: 1187–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill, E.W., Jobling, M.A., and Bradley, D.G. 2000. ‘Y-Chromosome Variation and Irish Origins’, Nature 404, 6776: 351–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grebmeier, J.M., Overland, J.E., Moore, S.E., Farley, E.V., Carmack, E.C., Cooper, L.W., Frey, K.E., Helle, J.H., McLaughlin, F.A., and McNutt, S.L. 2006. ‘A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, 5766: 1461–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, G.L. 2014. Investing with the Trend. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D.M. Gruen, O.A. Shenderova and A.Y. Vul’ (eds.). 2005. Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond St. Petersburg, Russia 7–10 June 2004. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Vol. 192. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Eymann, T., Streitberger, W., and Hudert, S. 2007. ‘Global Grids – Making a Case for Self-Organization in Large-Scale Overlay Networks’ in U. Montanari, D. Sannella and R. Bruni (eds.), Trustworthy Global Computing: Second Symposium, TGC 2006, Lucca, Italy, November 7-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. 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 Nations and Nationalism.

Blog post

Evans, K. 2016. ‘The 50 Smartest Public High Schools In America’, (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. 2014. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies. 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

Mueller, C. 2012. A Multidimensional Perspective of Faculty Mentoring and Job Satisfaction during the First Year of Teaching at Lindenwood University. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Kinsley, M. 2017. Nagging NATO, New York Times: SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sunda 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Conway and Toenniessen 2003; Sunda 2010).

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

Two authors: (Conway and Toenniessen 2003)
Three or more authors: (Grebmeier et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nations and Nationalism
ISSN (print)	1354-5078
ISSN (online)	1469-8129
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