How to format your references using the International Studies Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Studies Perspectives. 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

Peercy, P. S. (2000) The Drive to Miniaturization. Nature 406: 1023–1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, Yaoda, and Marvin M. Chun. (2006) Dissociable Neural Mechanisms Supporting Visual Short-Term Memory for Objects. Nature 440: 91–95.

A journal article with 3 authors

French, Scott, Vedran Lekic, and Barbara Romanowicz. (2013) Waveform Tomography Reveals Channeled Flow at the Base of the Oceanic Asthenosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342: 227–230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Azzouz, Mimoun, G. Scott Ralph, Erik Storkebaum, Lucy E. Walmsley, Kyriacos A. Mitrophanous, Susan M. Kingsman, Peter Carmeliet, and Nicholas D. Mazarakis. (2004) VEGF Delivery with Retrogradely Transported Lentivector Prolongs Survival in a Mouse ALS Model. Nature 429: 413–417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, Russell K. (2012) Visual Data Mining. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tsaftaris, Sotirios A., Ali Gooya, Alejandro F. Frangi, and Jerry L. Prince, Eds. (2016) 9968 Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging: First International Workshop, SASHIMI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 21, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper, Martin C., Achref El Mouelhi, Cyril Terrioux, and Bruno Zanuttini. (2014) On Broken Triangles. In Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 20th International Conference, CP 2014, Lyon, France, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Barry O’Sullivan. 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 Studies Perspectives.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. (2016) Antarctica Records Carbon Dioxide Levels Of 400ppm For The First Time In 4 Million Years. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctica-records-carbon-dioxide-levels-of-400ppm-for-the-first-time-in-4-million-years/. (Accessed October 30, 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. (1987) [Comments on Senate’s Liability for Special Charges and Taxes Related to Telephone Service]. 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

Errett, Russell. (2014) Acid Mine Drainage In The Big Muddy River Watershed. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. (2005) Arts, Briefly; Russian Film Studio Sale Is Delayed Yet Again. New York Times: E4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peercy 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Peercy 2000; Xu and Chun 2006).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Chun 2006)
Three authors: (French, Lekic, and Romanowicz 2013)
7 or more authors: (Azzouz, Ralph, Storkebaum, Walmsley, Mitrophanous, Kingsman, et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Perspectives
ISSN (print)	1528-3585
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