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

Chipman, Andrea. 2007. “Contest Puts Brakes on Carbon Capture.” Nature 447 (7148): 1044–1045.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn, Timothy J., and Keith R. Briffa. 2006. “The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5762): 841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corominas-Murtra, Bernat, Jordi Fortuny, and Ricard V. Solé. 2014. “Towards a Mathematical Theory of Meaningful Communication.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4587.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McKinnon, Jeffrey S., Seiichi Mori, Benjamin K. Blackman, Lior David, David M. Kingsley, Leia Jamieson, Jennifer Chou, and Dolph Schluter. 2004. “Evidence for Ecology’s Role in Speciation.” Nature 429 (6989): 294–298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald, Ian W. 2010. Waste Immobilization in Glass and Ceramic Based Hosts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Weisburd, David. 2007. Statistics in Criminal Justice. Edited by Chester Britt. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Muroi, Shota, and Takashi Kumamoto. 2016. “Coseismic Tsunami Simulation Assuming the Displacement of High-Angle Branching Active Faults Identified on the Continental Slope Around the Japan Trench.” In Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident, edited by Katsuhiro Kamae, 55–63. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2015. “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Black Holes.” 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. 1996. Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But IRS Has Not Yet Corrected Management and Technical Weaknesses. AIMD-96-106. 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

Andrade, Natasha Almeida. 2008. “Environmental Fate of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Agricultural Soils Which Have Received Biosolids Application.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Schwirtz, Michael, and William K. Rashbaum. 2017. “Departing Correction Chief: ‘They Just Want to Hammer Somebody Forever.’” New York Times, May 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chipman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chipman 2007; Osborn and Briffa 2006).

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

Two authors: (Osborn and Briffa 2006)
Three authors: (Corominas-Murtra, Fortuny, and Solé 2014)
4 or more authors: (McKinnon et al. 2004)

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