How to format your references using the European Journal of Politics and Gender citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Politics and Gender. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rowan-Robinson, M. (2009) Astronomy. Probing the cold universe, Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5940), 546–547.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trottier, Y. and Mandel, J.L. (2001) Biomedicine. Huntingtin--profit and loss, Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 445–446.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuer, A.H., Jia, C.L. and Lagerlöf, K.P.D. (2010) The core structure of basal dislocations in deformed sapphire (alpha-Al₂O₃), Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1227–1231.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Piotrowski, A.M., Goldstein, S.L., Hemming, S.R., et al (2005) Temporal relationships of carbon cycling and ocean circulation at glacial boundaries, Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1933–1938.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R. and Schüklenk, U. (2013) 50 Great Myths about Atheism, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kawamura, S. and Svinin, M. (eds.) (2006) Advances in Robot Control: From Everyday Physics to Human-Like Movements, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Haque, F. and Guo, P. (2011) “Membrane-Embedded Channel of Bacteriophage Phi29 DNA-Packaging Motor for Translocation and Sensing of Double-Stranded DNA.”, in Iqbal, S.M. and Bashir, R. (eds.), Nanopores: Sensing and Fundamental Biological Interactions, Boston, MA: Springer US. pp 77–106.

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 Politics and Gender.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015) Mercury Is Being Bombarded With Meteors, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/mercury-under-constant-meteor-bombardment/.

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 (1991) Highway Demonstration Projects: Improved Selection and Funding Controls Are Needed. RCED-91-146, 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

Luse, K.M. (2008) Invariants of knots, graphs, and Feynman diagrams, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017) Film Series, New York Times, 18 May, p C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rowan-Robinson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Trottier and Mandel, 2001; Rowan-Robinson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Trottier and Mandel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Piotrowski et al, 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Politics and Gender
ISSN (print)	2515-1088
ISSN (online)	2515-1096
Scope