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

Macilwain, C. (2000) Troubled US Fusion Project Receives Cash Injection. Nature 405: 110.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eliades, Steven J., and Xiaoqin Wang. (2008) Neural Substrates of Vocalization Feedback Monitoring in Primate Auditory Cortex. Nature 453: 1102–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaedler, Tobias A., Alan J. Jacobsen, and Wiliam B. Carter. (2013) Materials Science. Toward Lighter, Stiffer Materials. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 1181–1182.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yamamoto, Jorge Kazuo, Thomas Rich Fairchild, Paulo Cesar Boggiani, Tarcísio Jose Montanheiro, Carlos César de Araújo, Pedro Kunihiko Kiyohara, Sergio Luis Fabris de Matos, and Paulo César Soares. (2005) A Record of Permian Subaqueous Vent Activity in Southeastern Brazil. Nature 438: 205–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin, Daniel W., and Bolivar A. Senior. (2009) Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Adamatzky, Andrew, Ed. (2010) Game of Life Cellular Automata. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Petrii, O. A., and S. Fletcher. (2015) The Frumkin Era in Electrochemistry. In Electrochemistry in a Divided World: Innovations in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, edited by Fritz Scholz. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, Janet. (2015) China’s Rising Emissions Offset U.S. Reductions in Ozone Pollution. 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. (1994) GAO Work Related to ESEA of 1965. 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

Shimizu, Keisuke. (2013) The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Marx, Linda. (2012) Jenna Miranda and Mitch Meyers. New York Times: ST10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Eliades and Wang 2008).

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

Two authors: (Eliades and Wang 2008)
Three authors: (Schaedler, Jacobsen, and Carter 2013)
7 or more authors: (Yamamoto, Fairchild, Boggiani, Montanheiro, de Araújo, Kiyohara, et al. 2005)

About the journal

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