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

Begun, D. R. (2004). Anthropology. The earliest hominins--is less more? Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5663), 1478–1480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levison, H. F., & Morbidelli, A. (2003). The formation of the Kuiper belt by the outward transport of bodies during Neptune’s migration. Nature, 426(6965), 419–421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pettinato, G., Wen, X., & Zhang, N. (2014). Formation of well-defined embryoid bodies from dissociated human induced pluripotent stem cells using microfabricated cell-repellent microwell arrays. Scientific reports, 4, 7402.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nesbitt, S. J., Smith, N. D., Irmis, R. B., Turner, A. H., Downs, A., & Norell, M. A. (2009). A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5959), 1530–1533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niven, P. R. (2014). Balanced Scorecard Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, D., & Reynolds, M. (Eds.). (2011). AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 24th Australasian Joint Conference, Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 7106). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Costa, E. P., Lorena, A. C., Carvalho, A. C. P. L. F., & Freitas, A. A. (2008). Top-Down Hierarchical Ensembles of Classifiers for Predicting G-Protein-Coupled-Receptor Functions. In A. L. C. Bazzan, M. Craven, & N. F. Martins (Eds.), Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, Santo André, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 35–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. (2014, June 5). Watch “Beast” Asteroid Pass By Earth Live. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-beast-asteroid-pass-earth-live/. 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. (1988). Production and Quality of Education Information (No. T-PEMD-88-4). 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

Klein, J. (2017). Mississippian Space and Place: A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom (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

Hardy, M. (2017, June 17). In Houston, Juneteenth Site Rises From the Ruins. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begun 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Begun 2004; Levison and Morbidelli 2003).

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

Two authors: (Levison and Morbidelli 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nesbitt et al. 2009)

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