How to format your references using the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 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

Arntzen, C. J. (2008). Plant science. Using tobacco to treat cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1052–1053.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jenuwein, T., & Allis, C. D. (2001). Translating the histone code. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1074–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Q., Bae, S. C., & Granick, S. (2011). Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice. Nature, 469(7330), 381–384.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shiow, L. R., Rosen, D. B., Brdicková, N., Xu, Y., An, J., Lanier, L. L., et al. (2006). CD69 acts downstream of interferon-alpha/beta to inhibit S1P1 and lymphocyte egress from lymphoid organs. Nature, 440(7083), 540–544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ciobanu, C. V., Wang, C.-Z., & Ho, K.-M. (2013). Atomic Structure Prediction of Nanostructures, Clusters and Surfaces. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Friend, M., Goethe, N. B., & Harizanov, V. S. (Eds.). (2007). Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy (Vol. 9). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kiselev, A. V. (2007). Functional Model for Singular Perturbations of Non-self-adjoint Operators. In J. Janas, P. Kurasov, A. Laptev, S. Naboko, & G. Stolz (Eds.), Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics (pp. 51–67). Basel: Birkhäuser.

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 International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, January 6). Unusual triple star system may test some of Einstein’s theories. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1992). Earth Observing System: NASA’s EOSDIS Development Approach Is Risky (No. IMTEC-92-24). 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

Smith, C. A. (2014). Teacher and Student Perceptions of Bullying at Leclaire School (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

Pilon, M. (2014, February 18). Skating With a Smile, No Matter What. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arntzen 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Arntzen 2008; Jenuwein and Allis 2001).

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

Two authors: (Jenuwein and Allis 2001)
Three or more authors: (Shiow et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
Abbreviation	Int. J. Polit. Cult. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0891-4486
ISSN (online)	1573-3416
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations