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

Nakata, Daisuke. (2014) Increased N-Glycosylation of Asn⁸⁸ in Serum Pancreatic Ribonuclease 1 Is a Novel Diagnostic Marker for Pancreatic Cancer. Scientific reports 4: 6715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Jiandong, and Susan Gottesman. (2014) RNA. Riboswitch Regulates RNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345: 876–877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeon, Sang-Min, Navdeep S. Chandel, and Nissim Hay. (2012) AMPK Regulates NADPH Homeostasis to Promote Tumour Cell Survival during Energy Stress. Nature 485: 661–665.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kellis, Manolis, Nick Patterson, Matthew Endrizzi, Bruce Birren, and Eric S. Lander. (2003) Sequencing and Comparison of Yeast Species to Identify Genes and Regulatory Elements. Nature 423: 241–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vacca, John R. (2006) Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tibon-Czopp, Shira. (2016) Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice. edited by Irving B. Weiner. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Qiang, Marie-Hélène Abel, and Jean-Paul A. Barthès. (2014) Facilitating Collaboration and Information Retrieval: Collaborative Traces Based SWOT Analysis and Implications. In Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval: DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers, Studies in Computational Intelligence, edited by Cristian Lai, Alessandro Giuliani, and Giovanni Semeraro. 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

Hale, Tom. (2016) A Walrus Has Been Born In A Canadian Aquarium For The First Time. 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. (2014) Information Technology: Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness. 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

Gramajo, German G. (2014) Guidance Control of Small UAV with Energy and Maneuverability Limitations for a Search and Coverage Mission. 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

Crow, Kelly. (2001) Untouched, But Touched. New York Times: 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nakata 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Gottesman 2014; Nakata 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Gottesman 2014)
Three authors: (Jeon, Chandel, and Hay 2012)
7 or more authors: (Kellis, Patterson, Endrizzi, Birren, and Lander 2003)

About the journal

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