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

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

Kouwenhoven, L. 2000. “One Photon Seen by One Electron.” Nature 403 (6768): 374–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vitetta, Ellen S., and Victor F. Ghetie. 2006. “Immunology. Considering Therapeutic Antibodies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5785): 308–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hedde, Per Niklas, Milka Stakic, and Enrico Gratton. 2014. “Rapid Measurement of Molecular Transport and Interaction inside Living Cells Using Single Plane Illumination.” Scientific Reports 4 (November):7048.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Solovyov, Vyacheslav F., Toshinori Ozaki, Andrea Atrei, Lijun Wu, Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Jerzy T. Sadowski, Xiao Tong, Dmytro Nykypanchuk, and Qiang Li. 2014. “Highly Efficient Solid State Catalysis by Reconstructed (001) Ceria Surface.” Scientific Reports 4 (April):4627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman, Jeffrey. 2012. As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

R. Berthold, Michael, Robert C. Glen, and Ingrid Fischer, eds. 2006. Computational Life Sciences II: Second International Symposium, CompLife 2006, Cambridge, UK, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings. Vol. 4216. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Droste-Franke, Bert, Martin Carrier, Matthias Kaiser, Miranda Schreurs, Christoph Weber, and Thomas Ziesemer. 2015. “Specific Economic Problems and Uncertainties in the Context of Energy Systems.” In Improving Energy Decisions: Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System, edited by M. Carrier, M. Kaiser, Miranda Schreurs, Christoph Weber, and Thomas Ziesemer, 141–74. Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment. 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 Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “The Bronx Zoo Has Two New Gorillas!” IFLScience. IFLScience. April 25, 2014.

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. 2004. “Information Technology Management: Improvements Needed in Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Governmentwide.” GAO-04-478T. 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

Litt, Dana. 2010. “Social Networking Sites and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Role of Social Images, Social Norms, and Social Comparison.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2011. “Contractor’s Work Faulted At U.S. Pension Guarantor.” New York Times, December 2, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kouwenhoven 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kouwenhoven 2000; Vitetta and Ghetie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vitetta and Ghetie 2006)
Three authors: (Hedde, Stakic, and Gratton 2014)
4 or more authors: (Solovyov et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Quarterly
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Q.
ISSN (print)	1468-2478
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations