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

Prosnitz, Don. (2005) Science and Law. WMD Sensors--Search and Seizure. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 978.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranero, C. R., and von Huene R. (2000) Subduction Erosion along the Middle America Convergent Margin. Nature 404: 748–752.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot, Eric, Andrés Rivera, and Gino Casassa. (2003) Contribution of the Patagonia Icefields of South America to Sea Level Rise. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 434–437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gu, Chunsun, Xiaoxue Zhang, Jiafu Jiang, Zhiyong Guan, Shuang Zhao, Weimin Fang, Yuan Liao, Sumei Chen, and Fadi Chen. (2014) Chrysanthemum CmNAR2 Interacts with CmNRT2 in the Control of Nitrate Uptake. Scientific reports 4: 5833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schneider, Katherine A. (2011) Counseling About Cancer. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nagar, Atulya, Durga Prasad Mohapatra, and Nabendu Chaki, Eds. (2016) 43 Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics: ICACNI 2015, Volume 1. 1st ed. 2016. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Richards, Lisa M., Erica L. Towle, Douglas J. Fox, and Andrew K. Dunn. (2013) Laser Speckle Imaging of Cerebral Blood Flow. In Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy, edited by Steen J. Madsen. New York, NY: 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 Studies Perspectives.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. (2017) SpaceX Just Teased Us With A Video Of Its Biggest Rocket Ever. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-just-teased-us-with-a-video-of-its-biggest-rocket-ever/. (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. (2003) Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry. 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

Kory, Rachel. (2017) Development of an Educational Seminar for College Female Athletes, Coaches, Athletic Directors and Parents on the Female Athlete Triad. 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

Williams, John. (2017) A Guide to Writing Guides. New York Times: BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prosnitz 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ranero and von Huene R 2000; Prosnitz 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ranero and von Huene R 2000)
Three authors: (Rignot, Rivera, and Casassa 2003)
7 or more authors: (Gu, Zhang, Jiang, Guan, Zhao, Fang, et al. 2014)

About the journal

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