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

Golub, T., 2010. Counterpoint: Data first. Nature 464, 679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Badzey, R.L., Mohanty, P., 2005. Coherent signal amplification in bistable nanomechanical oscillators by stochastic resonance. Nature 437, 995–998.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gore, J., Youk, H., van Oudenaarden, A., 2009. Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast. Nature 459, 253–256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhou, K.-G., Vasu, K.S., Cherian, C.T., Neek-Amal, M., Zhang, J.C., Ghorbanfekr-Kalashami, H., Huang, K., Marshall, O.P., Kravets, V.G., Abraham, J., Su, Y., Grigorenko, A.N., Pratt, A., Geim, A.K., Peeters, F.M., Novoselov, K.S., Nair, R.R., 2018. Electrically controlled water permeation through graphene oxide membranes. Nature 559, 236–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massari, M., Gianfrate, G., Zanetti, L., 2016. Corporate Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Elmoataz, A., Lezoray, O., Nouboud, F., Mammass, D., Meunier, J. (Eds.), 2010. Image and Signal Processing: 4th International Conference, ICISP 2010, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, June 30-July 2, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bellman, A., Foshay, W.R., Gremillion, D., 2014. A Developmental Model for Adaptive and Differentiated Instruction Using Classroom Networking Technology, in: Clark-Wilson, A., Robutti, O., Sinclair, N. (Eds.), The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era: An International Perspective on Technology Focused Professional Development, Mathematics Education in the Digital Era. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–110.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. SpaceX Launches And Lands A Rocket For The First Time In Five Months [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-launches-and-lands-rocket-for-first-time-in-five-months/ (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, 1991. Grant Administration: Implementation of National Endowment for the Arts Reauthorization Act (No. GGD-91-102FS). 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

Ressler, K.M., 2008. The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

George, N., 2013. Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible. New York Times AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Golub, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Badzey and Mohanty, 2005; Golub, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Badzey and Mohanty, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2018)

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