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

Costa-Mattioli, Mauro. 2008. “Eppendorf Winner. Switching Memories ON and OFF.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5903): 874–875.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stark, John M., and Stephen C. Hart. 2003. “Nitrogen Storage: UV-B Radiation and Soil Microbial Communities.” Nature 423 (6936): 137–138; discussion 138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yue, Han, Thorne Lay, and Keith D. Koper. 2012. “En Échelon and Orthogonal Fault Ruptures of the 11 April 2012 Great Intraplate Earthquakes.” Nature 490 (7419): 245–249.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Girard, Angélique, Ravi Sachidanandam, Gregory J. Hannon, and Michelle A. Carmell. 2006. “A Germline-Specific Class of Small RNAs Binds Mammalian Piwi Proteins.” Nature 442 (7099): 199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cook, Hadrian F. 2017. The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Moy, Gerald G., and Richard W. Vannoort, eds. 2013. Total Diet Studies. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganapol, B. D., and R. Furfaro. 2008. “The Art of Analytical Benchmarking.” In Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation, edited by Frank Graziani, 105–134. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. 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 Terrorism.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Jurassic Monster Is Largest Meat-Eating Dinosaur Found In Germany.” 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. 1988. Airline Competition: Fare and Service Changes at St. Louis Since the TWA-Ozark Merger. RCED-88-217BR. 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

Dao, Ly-An T. 2017. “Comparison of Peripherally Inserted Intravenous Catheter Complication Prevalence: Before and after Changing a 96-Hour Routine Replacement Standard.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Bohlen, Celestine. 2017. “Ancient Georgian Culture, Set to Music.” New York Times, June 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Costa-Mattioli 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Costa-Mattioli 2008; Stark and Hart 2003).

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

Two authors: (Stark and Hart 2003)
Three authors: (Yue, Lay, and Koper 2012)
4 or more authors: (Girard et al. 2006)

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