How to format your references using the Annual Review of Political Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Political Science. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Graham MD. 2015. Fluid dynamics: Turbulence spreads like wildfire. Nature. 526(7574):508–9

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen Y, Ho LC. 2014. The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation. Nature. 513(7517):210–13

A journal article with 3 authors

Zijlstra P, Chon JWM, Gu M. 2009. Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods. Nature. 459(7245):410–13

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brembs B, Lorenzetti FD, Reyes FD, Baxter DA, Byrne JH. 2002. Operant reward learning in Aplysia: neuronal correlates and mechanisms. Science. 296(5573):1706–9

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni RG. 2004. Color. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Parker MG, ed. 2009. Cryptography and Coding: 12th IMA International Conference, Cryptography and Coding 2009, Cirencester, UK, December 15-17, 2009. Proceedings, Vol. 5921. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Mocci F, Laaksonen A, Wang Y-L, Saba G, Lai A, Cesare Marincola F. 2014. CompChem and NMR Probing Ionic Liquids. In The Structure of Ionic Liquids, eds. R Caminiti, L Gontrani, pp. 97–126. 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 Annual Review of Political Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Tesla. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1993. NASA Aeronautics: Protecting Sensitive Technology. NSIAD-93-201, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones DM. 2010. Educational paradigm shift: Emergence of the virtual classroom. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Apuzzo M, Fink S, Risen J. 2016. U.S. Torture Leaves a Legacy of Detainees With Damaged Minds. New York Times, Oct. 8, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Graham 2015; Shen & Ho 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shen & Ho 2014)
Three or more authors: (Brembs et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Political Science
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. (Palo Alto)
ISSN (print)	1094-2939
ISSN (online)	1545-1577
Scope	Sociology and Political Science