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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Niiler, Eric. (2003) Good Neighbours. Nature 426: 690–694.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, Wei, and Thomas C. Südhof. (2013) A Neural Circuit for Memory Specificity and Generalization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 1290–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, Calvin H., Christopher C. Williams, and Jonathan S. Weissman. (2014) Principles of ER Cotranslational Translocation Revealed by Proximity-Specific Ribosome Profiling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346: 1257521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hodges, Courtney, Lacramioara Bintu, Lucyna Lubkowska, Mikhail Kashlev, and Carlos Bustamante. (2009) Nucleosomal Fluctuations Govern the Transcription Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 626–628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M. M., and M. R. Islam. (2016) Zero Waste Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Evans, Mark D., and Marcus S. Cooke, Eds. (2007) Oxidative Damage to Nucleic Acids. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Higuchi, Yohei, and Tamotsu Hisamatsu. (2016) Light Acts as a Signal for Regulation of Growth and Development. In LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture, edited by Toyoki Kozai, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, and Erik S. Runkle. Singapore: 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

Fang, Janet. (2014) Hubble Captures the Glowing Heart of a Spiral Galaxy. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-captures-glowing-heart-spiral-galaxy/. (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. (2010) Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP), an E-Supplement to GAO-10-428R. 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

Kaiser, Carling V. (2015) “Maps of the World[s] in Its Becoming[s]”: Seeking Queer Potentialities in the Post-Apocalyptic Narrative. 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. (2013) S.&P. Seeks Dismissal of U.S. Civil Suit Over Rating of Mortgage Debt. New York Times: B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Niiler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Niiler 2003; Xu and Südhof 2013).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Südhof 2013)
Three authors: (Jan, Williams, and Weissman 2014)
7 or more authors: (Hodges, Bintu, Lubkowska, Kashlev, and Bustamante 2009)

About the journal

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