How to format your references using the Communist and Post-Communist Studies citation style

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

Lea, D.W., 2015. Palaeoclimate: Climate sensitivity in a warmer world. Nature 518, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pokrovski, G.S., Dubrovinsky, L.S., 2011. The S3- ion is stable in geological fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures. Science 331, 1052–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue, S., Calvin, K., Li, H., 2006. RNA recognition and cleavage by a splicing endonuclease. Science 312, 906–910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuiper, K.F., Deino, A., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Renne, P.R., Wijbrans, J.R., 2008. Synchronizing rock clocks of Earth history. Science 320, 500–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake, P.P., Fabozzi, F.J., 2010. The Basics of Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Begun, V., Jenkovszky, L.L., Polański, A. (Eds.), 2009. Progress in HighEnergy Physics and Nuclear Safety, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Heimer, G., Rivlin, M., Israel, Z., Bergman, H., 2006. Synchronizing activity of basal ganglia and pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease, in: Riederer, P., Reichmann, H., Youdim, M.B.H., Gerlach, M. (Eds.), Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa. Springer, Vienna, pp. 17–20.

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 Communist and Post-Communist Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Type 1 Diabetes Linked To Decreased Diversity In Microbiome [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/type-1-diabetes-linked-decreased-diversity-microbiome/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Reimbursement of Depreciation and Interest Costs for Construction of Satellite Hospital (No. B-164031(3).150). 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

Bain Butler, D., 2010. How L2 legal writers use strategies for scholarly writing: A mixed methods study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Koblin, J., Wingfield, N., 2017. Amazon Suspends Executive Accused of Sex Harassment. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lea, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lea, 2015; Pokrovski and Dubrovinsky, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Pokrovski and Dubrovinsky, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kuiper et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Abbreviation	Communist Post-Communist Stud.
ISSN (print)	0967-067X
Scope	Development Sociology and Political Science