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

Stafford, N. (2010). Science in the digital age. Nature 467(7317): S19-21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillett, N.P. & Thompson, D.W.J. (2003). Simulation of recent southern hemisphere climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5643): 273–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson, R.J., Zhou, N. & MacVicar, B.A. (2006). Ischemia opens neuronal gap junction hemichannels. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312(5775): 924–927.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Takayama, S., Ostuni, E., LeDuc, P., Naruse, K., Ingber, D.E. & Whitesides, G.M. (2001). Subcellular positioning of small molecules. Nature 411(6841): 1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blundell, A., Harrison, R. & Turney, B. (2010). The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Heißing, B. & Ersoy, M. (eds.). (2011). Chassis Handbook: Fundamentals, Driving Dynamics, Components, Mechatronics, Perspectives. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner.

A chapter in an edited book

Koch, G., Rapp, M. & Kröger, N. (2013). Harnessing the Innovation Potential of Citizens: How Open Innovation Can be Used to Co-develop Political Strategies. In N. Pfeffermann, T. Minshall & L. Mortara (eds.), Strategy and Communication for Innovation. 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 European Journal of Political Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 17). Air Pollution Causes More Than 3 Million Premature Deaths A Year Worldwide. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from

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. (2004). Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements (No. GAO-04-659). 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

Ramberg, K.S. (2010). L’envers et l’endroit: The other side of the cloth (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Hodgman, J. (2017, June 16). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gillett & Thompson, 2003; Stafford, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gillett & Thompson, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Takayama et al., 2001)

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