How to format your references using the East European Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for East European Politics. 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

Clawson, Gary A. 2013. “Cancer. Fusion for Moving.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6159): 699–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishida, H., and K. Sawada. 2001. “Macho-1 Encodes a Localized MRNA in Ascidian Eggs That Specifies Muscle Fate during Embryogenesis.” Nature 409 (6821): 724–729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhuang, Jie, Gui-Rui Yu, and Keiichi Nakayama. 2014. “A Series RCL Circuit Theory for Analyzing Non-Steady-State Water Uptake of Maize Plants.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6720.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cho, Hansang, Tadafumi Hashimoto, Elisabeth Wong, Yukiko Hori, Levi B. Wood, Lingzhi Zhao, Kevin M. Haigis, Bradley T. Hyman, and Daniel Irimia. 2013. “Microfluidic Chemotaxis Platform for Differentiating the Roles of Soluble and Bound Amyloid-β on Microglial Accumulation.” Scientific Reports 3: 1823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Killops, Stephen, and Vanessa Killops. 2004. Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Ignaciuk, Przemysław. 2013. Congestion Control in Data Transmission Networks: Sliding Mode and Other Designs. Edited by Andrzej Bartoszewicz. Communications and Control Engineering. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlsson, Christer, and Robert Fullér. 2011. “OWA Operators in Multiple Criteria Decisions.” In Possibility for Decision: A Possibilistic Approach to Real Life Decisions, edited by Robert Fullér, 77–100. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. 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 East European Politics.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2015. “If We Don’t Cut Our Carbon Emissions, This Is What The World Will Look Like By 2100.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/if-we-dont-address-our-carbon-emissions-how-world-will-look-100-years/.

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. 1994. Gray Market Vehicle Program: Extension Warranted, but Improvements in Vehicle Identification Are Needed. RCED-94-22. 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

Viruet, Heriberto Barriera. 2006. “Effect of Forklift Operation on Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Risen, James. 2016. “An Ex-Detainee, but Still a Captive of ‘The Darkness.’” New York Times, October 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clawson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Clawson 2013; Nishida and Sawada 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nishida and Sawada 2001)
Three authors: (Zhuang, Yu, and Nakayama 2014)
4 or more authors: (Cho et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	East European Politics
Abbreviation	East Eur. Polit.
ISSN (print)	2159-9165
ISSN (online)	2159-9173
Scope	Development Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations