How to format your references using the Politics, Groups, and Identities citation style

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

Adami, Christoph. 2006. “Evolution. Reducible Complexity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5770): 61–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oki, Taikan, and Shinjiro Kanae. 2006. “Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5790): 1068–1072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fehr, Ernst, Helen Bernhard, and Bettina Rockenbach. 2008. “Egalitarianism in Young Children.” Nature 454 (7208): 1079–1083.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Latorre, Ernest, Sohan Kale, Laura Casares, Manuel Gómez-González, Marina Uroz, Léo Valon, Roshna V. Nair, et al. 2018. “Active Superelasticity in Three-Dimensional Epithelia of Controlled Shape.” Nature 563 (7730): 203–208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, Gianpaolo, Gilbert Laporte, and Roberto Musmanno. 2005. Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gervais, Debra A., and Tarun Sabharwal, eds. 2011. Interventional Radiology Procedures in Biopsy and Drainage. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nichols, Joe. 2005. “Scope of Compensation for Environmental Damage Under the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and the 1992 Fund Convention.” In Marine Resource Damage Assessment: Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage, edited by Frank Maes, 59–66. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Africa’s Rhinos Hog The Limelight While Their Asian Cousins Head For Extinction.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 22. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/africa-s-rhinos-hog-limelight-while-their-asian-cousins-head-extinction/.

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. 1988. Space Shuttle: NASA’s Major Changes to Flight Hardware. NSIAD-88-173FS. 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

Buzinski, Paul. 2009. “Exploring Job Satisfaction of Long-Term Virtual Employees.” 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

Wasik, John F. 2017. “How Student Debt Is Snuffing Out Creative Sparks.” New York Times, January 11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adami 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Adami 2006; Oki and Kanae 2006).

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

Two authors: (Oki and Kanae 2006)
Three authors: (Fehr, Bernhard, and Rockenbach 2008)
4 or more authors: (Latorre et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Politics, Groups, and Identities
Abbreviation	Polit. Groups Identities
ISSN (print)	2156-5503
ISSN (online)	2156-5511
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