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

Lucht, Robert P. (2007) Chemistry. Femtosecond Lasers for Molecular Measurements. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forte, A. M., and J. X. Mitrovica. (2001) Deep-Mantle High-Viscosity Flow and Thermochemical Structure Inferred from Seismic and Geodynamic Data. Nature 410: 1049–1056.

A journal article with 3 authors

GrandPré, Tadzia, Shuxin Li, and Stephen M. Strittmatter. (2002) Nogo-66 Receptor Antagonist Peptide Promotes Axonal Regeneration. Nature 417: 547–551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, Eunha, Anass Benayad, Taeho Shin, Hyungik Lee, Dong-Su Ko, Tae Sang Kim, Kyoung Seok Son, Myungkwan Ryu, Sanghun Jeon, and Gyeong-Su Park. (2014) Nanocrystalline ZnON; High Mobility and Low Band Gap Semiconductor Material for High Performance Switch Transistor and Image Sensor Application. Scientific reports 4: 4948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tissue, Brian M. (2013) Basics of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Equilibria. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ábrahám, Erika, and Klaus Havelund, Eds. (2014) 8413 Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 20th International Conference, TACAS 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miki, Tsutomu, Takuya Inoue, Yuta Goto, Masahiko Watanabe, and Hatsuo Hayashi. (2010) Human-Like Local Navigation System Inspired by a Hippocampal Memory Mechanism. In Brain-Inspired Information Technology, Studies in Computational Intelligence, edited by Akitoshi Hanazawa, Tsutom Miki, and Keiichi Horio. 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 Foreign Policy Analysis.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. (2016) Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Bone That The Body Can Turn Into The Real Thing. IFLScience.

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. (2001) Financial Management: Assessment of the Airline Industry’s Estimated Losses Arising From the Events of September 11. 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

Ren, Wenshuo. (2013) The Portrayal of Risk-Taking Behaviors in Traffic on the Prime-Time Television Series. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Poniewozik, James. (2017) Clawing Her Way Back to Normal. New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucht 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Forte and Mitrovica 2001; Lucht 2007).

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

Two authors: (Forte and Mitrovica 2001)
Three authors: (GrandPré, Li, and Strittmatter 2002)
7 or more authors: (Lee, Benayad, Shin, Lee, Ko, Kim, et al. 2014)

About the journal

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