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

Stillman, B. (2001) DNA replication. Genomic views of genome duplication. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294(5550): 2301–2304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, E. B., and Molinero, V. (2011) Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice. Nature 479(7374): 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Y., Pun, D., and Stahl, S. S. (2011) Palladium-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6039): 209–213.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Chaudhuri, J., Tian, M., Khuong, C., Chua, K., Pinaud, E., and Alt, F. W. (2003) Transcription-targeted DNA deamination by the AID antibody diversification enzyme. Nature 422(6933): 726–730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staebler, P. (2017) Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heine, V. M. (2012) Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine. (Dooves, S., Holmes, D., and Wagner, J., Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Spoor, M. (2005) Inequality, Poverty and Conflict in Transition Economies. In Spoor, M. (Ed.), Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical “Development” Reader. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, D. (2016, October 11) Three Ways Organic Electronics Is Changing Technology As We Know It. 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 (2015) Federal Vehicle Fleets: Leading Practices for Managing Fleet Operations (No. GAO-15-644T). 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

Harper, N. R. (2017) The Relationship between Worry Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and True Memory, False Memory, and Metamemory (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kulish, N., and Clark, N. (2015, April 18) Warning Signs in the Mind of a Pilot Determined to Die. 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 (Stillman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Molinero, 2011; Stillman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Molinero, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chaudhuri et al., 2003)

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