How to format your references using the French Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for French Politics. 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

Schrag, D. P. (2000) Of ice and elephants. Nature 404(6773): 23–24.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao, T., and Cohen, R. E. (2002) A cryptic protease couples deubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome. Nature 419(6905): 403–407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobs, S. S., Giulivi, C. F., and Mele, P. A. (2002) Freshening of the Ross Sea during the late 20th century. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5580): 386–389.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Hughes, T. P., Anderson, K. D., Connolly, S. R., Heron, S. F., Kerry, J. T., Lough, J. M., et al. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene. Science (New York, N.Y.) 359(6371): 80–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ko, C. J., and Barr, R. J. (2011) Dermatopathology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Capitelli, M. (2013) Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport. (Bruno, D. and Laricchiuta, A., Eds.) (Vol. 74). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lopes, N., and Ribeiro, B. (2015) Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In Ribeiro, B. (Ed.), Machine Learning for Adaptive Many-Core Machines - A Practical Approach. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 French Politics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 2) Ancient Carnivorous Leaves Discovered in Amber. IFLScience. 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) USDA Electronic Filing: Progress Made, But Central Leadership and Comprehensive Implementation Plan Needed (No. GAO-01-324). 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

Gallegos, L. L. (2009) Spatiotemporal regulation of protein kinase C signaling: Control of normal cellular dynamics and mis-regulation in cancer (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Stewart, J. B. (2016, November 24) In Chamber of Secrets: An Author’s Net Worth. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrag, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schrag, 2000; Yao and Cohen, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Yao and Cohen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hughes et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	French Politics
Abbreviation	Fr. Polit.
ISSN (print)	1476-3419
ISSN (online)	1476-3427
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations