How to format your references using the International Political Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Political Sociology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Goonatilake, S. (2000) Many Paths to Enlightenment. Nature 405: 399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Backwell, Patricia R. Y., and Michael D. Jennions. (2004) Animal Behaviour: Coalition among Male Fiddler Crabs. Nature 430: 417.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tritsch, Nicolas X., Jun B. Ding, and Bernardo L. Sabatini. (2012) Dopaminergic Neurons Inhibit Striatal Output through Non-Canonical Release of GABA. Nature 490: 262–266.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shao, Yangyang, Ning Lu, Zhenfang Wu, Chen Cai, Shanshan Wang, Ling-Li Zhang, Fan Zhou, Shijun Xiao, Lin Liu, Xiaofei Zeng, Huajun Zheng, Chen Yang, Zhihu Zhao, Guoping Zhao, Jin-Qiu Zhou, Xiaoli Xue, and Zhongjun Qin. (2018) Creating a Functional Single-Chromosome Yeast. Nature 560: 331–335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hendrick, Judith. (2010) Law and Ethics in Children’s Nursing. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh, Ed. (2013) 8065 Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XI. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramesh, R., V. K. Jayakumar, J. Manecius Selvakumar, V. Doss Prakash, G. A. Ramadass, and M. A. Atmanand. (2010) Distributed Real Time Control Systems for Deep Water ROV (ROSUB 6000). In Trends in Intelligent Robotics: 13th FIRA Robot World Congress, FIRA 2010, Bangalore, India, September 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science, edited by Prahlad Vadakkepat, Jong-Hwan Kim, Norbert Jesse, Abdullah Al Mamun, Tan Kok Kiong, Jacky Baltes, John Anderson, Igor Verner, and David Ahlgren. 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 Political Sociology.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. (2016) Smoking Cannabis While Pregnant May Increase Chance Of Babies Entering Intensive Care. 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. (2011) Transportation Security: Actions Needed to Address Limitations in TSA’s Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments and Growing Workload. 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

Lazor, Deborah Lynn. (2010) “Festen”: A Celebration (of the Imagination!). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shpigel, Ben. (2016) Steelers Are Getting Their 2 Points’ Worth. New York Times: B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goonatilake 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goonatilake 2000; Backwell and Jennions 2004).

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

Two authors: (Backwell and Jennions 2004)
Three authors: (Tritsch, Ding, and Sabatini 2012)
7 or more authors: (Shao, Lu, Wu, Cai, Wang, Zhang, et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Political Sociology
Abbreviation	Int. Polit. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	1749-5687
Scope	Sociology and Political Science