How to format your references using the Politikon citation style

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

Ziemelis, Karl. 2003. “Hydrocarbon Reservoirs.” Nature 426 (6964): 317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, Myles R., and David J. Frame. 2007. “Atmosphere. Call off the Quest.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5850): 582–583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, Aiwu, Joseph W. Lauher, and Nancy S. Goroff. 2006. “Preparation of Poly(Diiododiacetylene), an Ordered Conjugated Polymer of Carbon and Iodine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5776): 1030–1034.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Frankino, W. Anthony, Bas J. Zwaan, David L. Stern, and Paul M. Brakefield. 2005. “Natural Selection and Developmental Constraints in the Evolution of Allometries.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5710): 718–720.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, Alan S. 2006. ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Baillieul, John, and Tariq Samad, eds. 2015. Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trotter, Griffin. 2012. “Why the West Spurns Medical Rituals.” In Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition, edited by David Solomon, Ruiping Fan, and Ping-Cheung Lo, 75–86. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. 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 Politikon.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Why Do Snakes Have DNA For Limb Development?” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 5. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-snakes-have-dna-limb-development/.

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. 1994. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Assessment of Pre-Flight Service Technology Options. AIMD-94-137BR. 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

Vento-Wilson, Margaret. 2012. “The Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist and Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Acute Care Patients with Severe Communication Impairments.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Catch of the Year So Far. No Ball Involved.” New York Times, March 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ziemelis 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ziemelis 2003; Allen and Frame 2007).

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

Two authors: (Allen and Frame 2007)
Three authors: (Sun, Lauher, and Goroff 2006)
4 or more authors: (Frankino et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Politikon
ISSN (print)	0258-9346
ISSN (online)	1470-1014
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations