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

Lander, E. S. (2011). Initial impact of the sequencing of the human genome. Nature, 470(7333), 187–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woolhouse, M. E. J., & Ward, M. J. (2013). Microbiology. Sources of antimicrobial resistance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1460–1461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Steck, D. A., Oskay, W. H., & Raizen, M. G. (2001). Observation of chaos-assisted tunneling between islands of stability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 274–278.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gerton, J. M., Strekalov, D., Prodan, I., & Hulet, R. G. (2000). Direct observation of growth and collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions. Nature, 408(6813), 692–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertin, E., Crespi, N., & Pujolle, G. (2013). Architecture and Governance for Communication Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nersisyan, H. (2007). Interactions Between Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field: A Theoretical Approach to Ion Stopping in Magnetized Plasmas. (C. Toepffer & G. Zwicknagel, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, N., Moghaddam, F. M., & Harré, R. (2012). Internationalizing the Social Psychology Curriculum in the USA. In F. T. L. Leong, W. E. Pickren, M. M. Leach, & A. J. Marsella (Eds.), Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States (pp. 75–93). New York, NY: 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 International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 19). The Massive Waste Happening In Mosquito-Borne Disease Research. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/massive-waste-happening-mosquito-borne-disease-research/. 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. (1996). Waste From School Lunches (No. RCED-96-128R). 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

Wolzinger, R. (2010). Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the California Community College System during the financial and labor market crisis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Cooper, M. (2017, October 3). Lincoln Center Scraps $500 Million Renovation. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lander 2011; Woolhouse and Ward 2013).

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

Two authors: (Woolhouse and Ward 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gerton et al. 2000)

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