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

Collins, Francis. 2010. “Scientists Need a Shorter Path to Research Freedom.” Nature 467 (7316): 635.

A journal article with 2 authors

Najemnik, Jiri, and Wilson S. Geisler. 2005. “Optimal Eye Movement Strategies in Visual Search.” Nature 434 (7031): 387–391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imai, Takeshi, Misao Suzuki, and Hitoshi Sakano. 2006. “Odorant Receptor-Derived CAMP Signals Direct Axonal Targeting.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5799): 657–661.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Unnithan, Veena V., Adrian Unc, Valerisa Joe, and Geoffrey B. Smith. 2014. “Short RNA Indicator Sequences Are Not Completely Degraded by Autoclaving.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, Pamela Beth. 2017. Modern Spain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Winkler, Dietmar, Stefan Biffl, and Johannes Bergsmann, eds. 2015. Software Quality. Software and Systems Quality in Distributed and Mobile Environments: 7th International Conference, SWQD 2015, Vienna, Austria, January 20-23, 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 200. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rajruangrabin, Jartuwat, Isura Ranatunga, and Dan O. Popa. 2012. “Adaptive Interface Mapping for Intuitive Teleoperation of Multi-DOF Robots.” In Advances in Autonomous Robotics: Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012, edited by Guido Herrmann, Matthew Studley, Martin Pearson, Andrew Conn, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Jong-Hwan Kim, and Prahlad Vadakkepat, 49–60. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. “Doctors Warn Of Drinking Too Much Water When Ill.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-warn-of-drinking-too-much-water-when-ill/.

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. 1996. Substance Abuse Surveys. HEHS-96-179R. 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

Verdi, Kristy C. 2017. “What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Lee, Linda. 2008. “Looking Nice Either Way.” New York Times, August 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2010; Najemnik and Geisler 2005).

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

Two authors: (Najemnik and Geisler 2005)
Three authors: (Imai, Suzuki, and Sakano 2006)
4 or more authors: (Unnithan et al. 2014)

About the journal

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