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

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

Smaglik, Paul. 2003. “Forcing the Market.” Nature 426 (6967): 735.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, John M., and Blaine D. Griffen. 2010. “Early Warning Signals of Extinction in Deteriorating Environments.” Nature 467 (7314): 456–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs, Jessica A., Michel C. Nussenzweig, and André Nussenzweig. 2007. “Chromatin Dynamics and the Preservation of Genetic Information.” Nature 447 (7147): 951–958.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Watanabe, Rikiya, Naoki Soga, Tomoko Yamanaka, and Hiroyuki Noji. 2014. “High-Throughput Formation of Lipid Bilayer Membrane Arrays with an Asymmetric Lipid Composition.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, Eric, Dian Nel, and Sverrir Ólafsson. 2014. Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pecharsky, Vitalij K. 2009. Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural Characterization of Materials. Edited by Peter Y. Zavalij. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Tjosvold, Dean, Paulina Wan, and Moureen M. L. Tang. 2016. “Trust and Managing Conflict: Partners in Developing Organizations.” In Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations, edited by Patricia Elgoibar, Martin Euwema, and Lourdes Munduate, 53–74. Industrial Relations & Conflict Management. 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 Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. “Lithium-Oxygen Battery May Spell The End Of The Age Of Oil.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2001. Air Traffic Control: FAA Enhanced the Controller-in-Charge Program, but More Comprehensive Evaluation Is Needed. GAO-02-55. 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

Kurum, Mehmet. 2009. “L-Band Estimation of Forest Canopy Attenuation by a Time-Domain Analysis of Radar Backscatter Response.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Cooper, Michael. 2017. “More Slamming Door! More Slamming Door!” New York Times, October 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Drake and Griffen 2010).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Griffen 2010)
Three authors: (Downs, Nussenzweig, and Nussenzweig 2007)
4 or more authors: (Watanabe et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical Studies on Terrorism
Abbreviation	Crit. Stud. Terror.
ISSN (print)	1753-9153
ISSN (online)	1753-9161
Scope	Political Science and International Relations