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

Pielke, Roger A., Sr. (2005) Atmospheric Science. Land Use and Climate Change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 1625–1626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stefankiewicz, Artur R., and Jeremy K. M. Sanders. (2010) Chemistry. Harmony of the Self-Assembled Spheres. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Preis, Tobias, Helen Susannah Moat, and H. Eugene Stanley. (2013) Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends. Scientific reports 3: 1684.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deng, Xinyang, Qi Liu, Rehan Sadiq, and Yong Deng. (2014) Impact of Roles Assignation on Heterogeneous Populations in Evolutionary Dictator Game. Scientific reports 4: 6937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, Douglas B., and Michael W. Davidson. (2012) Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang, Dachun. (2013) 2084 The Hardy Space H1 with Non-Doubling Measures and Their Applications. edited by Dongyong Yang and Guoen Hu. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Aceto, Luca, Wan Fokkink, Anna Ingolfsdottir, and Sumit Nain. (2005) Bisimilarity Is Not Finitely Based over BPA with Interrupt. In Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: First International Conference, CALCO 2005, Swansea, UK, September 3-6, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by José Luiz Fiadeiro, Neil Harman, Markus Roggenbach, and Jan Rutten. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. (2016) Remarkable 3D Printed Replicas Of Ötzi The Iceman Are Coming To The U.S. 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. (2017) Aviation Security: TSA Does Not Have Valid Evidence Supporting Most of the Revised Behavioral Indicators Used in Its Behavior Detection Activities. 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

Herron, Meghann. (2013) Prescripton Labels: Do You Know What Medication You Are Taking? 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

Greenhouse, Linda. (2008) Justices to Hear Case Testing Rule on Witness. New York Times: A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Pielke 2005; Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010)
Three authors: (Preis, Moat, and Stanley 2013)
7 or more authors: (Deng, Liu, Sadiq, and Deng 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