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

Kaplan, Karen. (2009) Unmasking the Impostor. Nature 459: 468–469.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieseberg, Loren H., and John H. Willis. (2007) Plant Speciation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 910–914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Dong-Hwan, Ki-Hyeok Kwon, and Chae S. Yi. (2011) Selective Catalytic C-H Alkylation of Alkenes with Alcohols. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1613–1616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Taki, Faten A., Xiaoping Pan, Myon-Hee Lee, and Baohong Zhang. (2014) Nicotine Exposure and Transgenerational Impact: A Prospective Study on Small Regulatory MicroRNAs. Scientific reports 4: 7513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misstear, Bruce, David Banks, and Lewis Clark. (2006) Water Wells and Boreholes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Alam, Nafis, and Syed Aun R. Rizvi, Eds. (2016) Islamic Capital Markets: Volatility, Performance and Stability. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Enström, Rickard, and Lyle Benson. (2016) A Triangulated Appraisal of How Hybrid Activities Develop Students’ Negotiating Self-Confidence. In Innovative Business Education Design for 21st Century Learning, edited by Peter Daly, Kristen Reid, Patrick Buckley, and Elaine Doyle. 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

Andrew, Danielle. (2016) Speed Networking: How To Win Euro 2016. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/speed-networking-how-to-win-euro-2016/. (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. (2009) Aviation Security: TSA Has Completed Key Activities Associated with Implementing Secure Flight, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Mitigate Risks. 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

Kharal, Shankar Prasad. (2017) Modelling Sensitization Dynamics in 5xxx Series Aluminum Alloys. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana.

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

Hollander, Sophia. (2002) Taking Life to the Edge, And Spins and Jumps, Too. New York Times: D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaplan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rieseberg and Willis 2007; Kaplan 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rieseberg and Willis 2007)
Three authors: (Lee, Kwon, and Yi 2011)
7 or more authors: (Taki, Pan, Lee, and Zhang 2014)

About the journal

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