How to format your references using the European Journal of Political Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Political Research. 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

Bobbert, P.A. (2014). Applied physics. Manipulating spin in organic spintronics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6203): 1450–1451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schirle, N.T. & MacRae, I.J. (2012). The crystal structure of human Argonaute2. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6084): 1037–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cobaleda, C., Jochum, W. & Busslinger, M. (2007). Conversion of mature B cells into T cells by dedifferentiation to uncommitted progenitors. Nature 449(7161): 473–477.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ritter, C., Maddelein, M.-L., Siemer, A.B., Lührs, T., Ernst, M., Meier, B.H., … Riek, R. (2005). Correlation of structural elements and infectivity of the HET-s prion. Nature 435(7043): 844–848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni, S.B. (2015). Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Stadler, C., Wieser, M. & Kirk, K. (eds.). (2016). Psychodrama. Empirical Research and Science 2. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

Krishnaswamy, S., Markov, I.L. & Hayes, J.P. (2013). Signature-Based Reliability Analysis. In I. L. Markov & J. P. Hayes (eds.), Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 European Journal of Political Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 8). Heartwarming Footage Shows Two Captive Dolphins Being Returned To The Wild. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/watch-moment-two-captive-dolphins-are-returned-wild/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Airports’ Efforts to Deal with Date Change Problem (No. RCED/AIMD-99-57). 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

Rodriguez, G. (2013). Undocumented students in higher education: A grant project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Clarke, J. (2016, December 8). Crossing the Atlantic on a Paddleboard. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobbert, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bobbert, 2014; Schirle & MacRae, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schirle & MacRae, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ritter et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Political Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Polit. Res.
ISSN (print)	0304-4130
ISSN (online)	1475-6765
Scope	Sociology and Political Science