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

Csatho, Beata M. 2015. “Climate Science: A History of Greenland’s Ice Loss.” Nature 528 (7582): 341–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norris, David J., and Eray S. Aydil. 2012. “Materials Science. Getting Moore from Solar Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6107): 625–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan, Simeng, David A. Huse, and Steven R. White. 2011. “Spin-Liquid Ground State of the S = 1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6034): 1173–1176.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mehl-Madrona, L., M. Katz, E. P. Curry, and L. B. Bribiesca. 2000. “Alternative Views on Alternative Medicine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 289 (5477): 245b–246b.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parke, Ross D. 2013. Future Families. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Constanda, Christian, and M. E. Pérez, eds. 2010. Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Volume 2: Computational Aspects. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Al Obaidani, Sulaiman, Mohammed Al-Abri, and Nabeel Al-Rawahi. 2015. “Achieving the Zero-Liquid-Discharge Target Using the Integrated Membrane System for Seawater Desalination.” In Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems, edited by Mahad Baawain, B. S. Choudri, Mushtaque Ahmed, and Anton Purnama, 53–72. 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 East European Politics.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “IBM Watson Set to Battle Brain Cancers.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ibm-watson-set-battle-brain-cancers/.

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. 2005. Aviation Security: Secure Flight Development and Testing Under Way, but Risks Should Be Managed as System Is Further Developed. GAO-05-356. 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

Nguyen, Diem Nancy. 2012. “Career Decision Process of First Generation Vietnamese American College Students.” 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

St. John Kelly, Erin. 1998. “Media Talk; Dialing Sister Souljah at WLIB.” New York Times, June 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Csatho 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Csatho 2015; Norris and Aydil 2012).

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

Two authors: (Norris and Aydil 2012)
Three authors: (Yan, Huse, and White 2011)
4 or more authors: (Mehl-Madrona et al. 2000)

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