How to format your references using the West European Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for West European Politics (WEP). 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

Stocker, Thomas F. (2015). ‘The silent services of the world ocean’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 350:6262, 764–765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartel, Bonnie, and Seiichi P. T. Matsuda (2003). ‘Plant biology. Seeing red’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 299:5605, 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo, Ge, Wei Wang, and Allan Bradley (2004). ‘Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells’, Nature, 429:6994, 891–895.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Bhanu, Udai, Muhammad R. Islam, Laurene Tetard, and Saiful I. Khondaker (2014). ‘Photoluminescence quenching in gold - MoS2 hybrid nanoflakes’, Scientific reports, 4, 5575.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe, Oliver C. (2013). Elements of Random Walk and Diffusion Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moroney, Laurence, and Matthew MacDonald, eds. (2006). Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Chattopadhyay, Surajit, Madhuchhanda Mitra, and Samarjit Sengupta (2011). ‘Harmonics’, in Madhuchhanda Mitra and Samarjit Sengupta (eds.), Electric Power Quality, Power Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 17–34.

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 West European Politics.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo (2016). ‘Rosetta’s Final Dive In Two Weeks Will Unlock Comet 67P’s Last Secrets’, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-final-dive-in-two-weeks-will-unlock-comet-67ps-last-secrets/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1998). ‘District of Columbia Public Schools: Status of Fiscal Year 1998 Roof Projects’, , 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

Randall, Regina Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Feeney, Kelly ‘An Empire’s New Outpost’. New York Times, March 22, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bartel and Matsuda 2003; Stocker 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bartel and Matsuda 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bhanu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	West European Politics
Abbreviation	West Eur. Polit.
ISSN (print)	0140-2382
ISSN (online)	1743-9655
Scope	Political Science and International Relations