How to format your references using the Foreign Policy Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Foreign Policy Analysis. 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

Melino, Gerry. (2010) Journal Club. A Cancer Biologist Weighs up P53, Metabolism and Cancer. Nature 466: 905.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer, Jason, and Ari Helenius. (2008) Vaccinia Virus Uses Macropinocytosis and Apoptotic Mimicry to Enter Host Cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 531–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arash, B., Q. Wang, and V. K. Varadan. (2014) Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites. Scientific reports 4: 6479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miaudet, Pierre, Alain Derré, Maryse Maugey, Cécile Zakri, Patrick M. Piccione, Rabi Inoubli, and Philippe Poulin. (2007) Shape and Temperature Memory of Nanocomposites with Broadened Glass Transition. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1294–1296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leis, John W. (2011) Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB for Students and Researchers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Smith, Ian W. M., Charles S. Cockell, and Sydney Leach, Eds. (2013) Astrochemistry and Astrobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miska, Marc, Hiroshi Warita, Alexandre Torday, and Masao Kuwahara. (2010) International Traffic Database: Gathering Traffic Data Fast and Intuitive. In Traffic Data Collection and Its Standardization, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, edited by Jaume Barceló and Masao Kuwahara. New York, NY: 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 Foreign Policy Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. (2014) The Dark Side Of Research – When Chasing Prestige Becomes The Prize. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dark-side-research-when-chasing-prestige-becomes-prize/. (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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. (2000) Aviation Safety: Safer Skies Initiative Has Taken Initial Steps to Reduce Accident Rates by 2007. 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

Jahan, Mina. (2015) A Policy to Protect Hoarders: An Analysis of Fair Housing Amendments Act, 1988. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wagner, James. (2017) Mets Win as Bruce Drives in Five Runs With Two Homers. New York Times: B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melino 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mercer and Helenius 2008; Melino 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mercer and Helenius 2008)
Three authors: (Arash, Wang, and Varadan 2014)
7 or more authors: (Miaudet, Derré, Maugey, Zakri, Piccione, Inoubli, et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Foreign Policy Analysis
Abbreviation	Foreign Pol. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1743-8594
Scope	Political Science and International Relations