How to format your references using the Studies in Comparative International Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Comparative International Development. 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

Beacham TD. Comment on “rapid evolution of egg size in captive salmon.” Science. 2003 Oct 3;302(5642):59; discussion 59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan Y, Pennycook SJ. Atomic structure of the quasicrystal Al72Ni20Co8. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aronov D, Andalman AS, Fee MS. A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbird. Science. 2008 May 2;320(5876):630–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen M, Briscoe WH, Armes SP, Klein J. Lubrication at physiological pressures by polyzwitterionic brushes. Science. 2009 Mar 27;323(5922):1698–701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Chevalier F, Lesselier D, Staraj R. Non-standard Antennas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Kauffman CA, Pappas PG, Sobel JD, Dismukes WE, editors. Essentials of Clinical Mycology. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Staniškis JK, Kruopiene J, Dvarioniene J. REACH Regulation – A Prerequisite for Health and Environmental Safety: Lithuanian Case. In: Vitale K, editor. Environmental and Food Safety and Security for South-East Europe and Ukraine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 45–58.

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 Studies in Comparative International Development.

Blog post

Andrew E. Do Tech Accelerators Have A Sexism Problem? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/do-tech-accelerators-have-sexism-problem/

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. Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: RCED-99-234.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez SG. Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Kelly S. Miss. Loves Nev. New York Times. 1998 Nov 15;732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beacham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Beacham 2003; Yan and Pennycook 2000).

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

Two authors: (Yan and Pennycook 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Comparative International Development
Abbreviation	Stud. Comp. Int. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0039-3606
ISSN (online)	1936-6167
Scope	Development Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations