How to format your references using the Critical Studies on Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Studies on Security. 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 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

Sadoulet, Bernard. 2007. “Particle Dark Matter in the Universe: At the Brink of Discovery?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5808): 61–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenfeld, D., and W. L. Woodley. 2000. “Deep Convective Clouds with Sustained Supercooled Liquid Water down to -37.5 Degrees C.” Nature 405 (6785): 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalancon, Guilhem, Kai Kruse, and M. Madan Babu. 2012. “Cell Biology. Reconfiguring Regulation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6072): 1050–1051.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McHardy, I. M., E. Koerding, C. Knigge, P. Uttley, and R. P. Fender. 2006. “Active Galactic Nuclei as Scaled-up Galactic Black Holes.” Nature 444 (7120): 730–732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, Bridgit. 2016. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pleyer, Uwe, Jorge L. Alió, Talin Barisani-Asenbauer, Phuc Le Hoang, and Narsing A. Rao, eds. 2014. Immune Modulation and Anti-Inflammatory Therapy in Ocular Disorders: IOIS Guidelines. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

AbuRahma, Ali F. 2007. “Overview of Various Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Techniques.” In Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy, edited by Ali F. AbuRahma and John J. Bergan, 50–59. London: Springer.

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 Critical Studies on Security.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Secret Meeting Of Scientists To Discuss Creating Synthetic Human Genome Fuels Speculation.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/secret-meeting-scientists-discuss-creating-synthetic-human-genome-fuels/.

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. 1989. FAA Research, Engineering and Development Issues. T-RCED-89-21. 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

Meyertholen, Andrea Noel. 2014. “Blurring the Lines: The Invention of Abstract in German Literature since 1800.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “Delightful in Their Depravity.” New York Times, June 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sadoulet 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sadoulet 2007; Rosenfeld and Woodley 2000).

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

Two authors: (Rosenfeld and Woodley 2000)
Three authors: (Chalancon, Kruse, and Babu 2012)
4 or more authors: (McHardy et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Studies on Security
ISSN (print)	2162-4887
ISSN (online)	2162-4909
Scope