How to format your references using the Post-Soviet Affairs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Post-Soviet Affairs. 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

Bodelier, Paul L. E. 2015. “Sustainability: Bypassing the Methane Cycle.” Nature 523 (7562): 534–535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Riddihough, Guy, and Laura M. Zahn. 2010. “Epigenetics. What Is Epigenetics? Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6004): 611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rowe, T., E. F. McBride, and P. C. Sereno. 2001. “Dinosaur with a Heart of Stone.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5505): 783.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Citroni, Margherita, Matteo Ceppatelli, Roberto Bini, and Vincenzo Schettino. 2002. “Laser-Induced Selectivity for Dimerization versus Polymerization of Butadiene under Pressure.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5562): 2058–2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boussabaine, Abdelhalim. 2013. Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

O’Donnell, John. 2006. Discrete Mathematics Using a Computer. 2nd ed. Edited by Cordelia Hall and Rex Page. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zaman, Rawfin, William W. Edmonson, and Manoj K. Jha. 2016. “Designing a Remote In Situ Soil Moisture Sensor Network for Small Satellite Data Retrieval.” In Proceedings of the 2013 National Conference on Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, edited by Godfrey A. Uzochukwu, Keith Schimmel, Vinayak Kabadi, Shoou-Yuh Chang, Tanya Pinder, and Salam A. Ibrahim, 35–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Post-Soviet Affairs.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “Scientists Have Managed To Probe The Icy Interior Of Ceres.” IFLScience, IFLScience, December 15.

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. Space Launch System: Resources Need to Be Matched to Requirements to Decrease Risk and Support Long Term Affordability. GAO-14-631. 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

Stoltzfus, Kevin Matthew. 2010. “The Relationship between Teachers’ Training Transfer and Their Perceptions of Principal Leadership Style.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Eyes on Supreme Court In Execution Case Tonight.” New York Times, October 30, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bodelier 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bodelier 2015; Riddihough and Zahn 2010).

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

Two authors: (Riddihough and Zahn 2010)
Three authors: (Rowe, McBride, and Sereno 2001)
4 or more authors: (Citroni et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Post-Soviet Affairs
ISSN (print)	1060-586X
ISSN (online)	1938-2855
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations