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

Schmidt, Charles. (2012) Bioelectronics: The Bionic Material. Nature 483: S37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tao, Yitzhi Jane, and Wenjie Zheng. (2012) Biochemistry. Visualizing the Influenza Genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 1545–1546.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ingle, Nicholas J. C., Malcolm R. Beasley, and Theodore H. Geballe. (2002) Superconductivity in a Spin-Ladder Cuprate. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 1967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Tianyu, Xiaogang Liu, David R. Spring, Xuhong Qian, Jingnan Cui, and Zhaochao Xu. (2014) Quantitatively Mapping Cellular Viscosity with Detailed Organelle Information via a Designed PET Fluorescent Probe. Scientific reports 4: 5418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smed, Jouni, and Harri Hakonen. (2006) Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Minker, Wolfgang. (2009) 42 Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition. edited by Satoshi Nakamura, Konstantin Markov, and Sakriani Sakti. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Goudelis, Georgios, Anastasios Tefas, and Ioannis Pitas. (2010) Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Emerging Biometrics. In Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, edited by Husrev Taha Sencar, Sergio Velastin, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, and Shiguo Lian. 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

Luntz, Stephen. (2017) Genetic Legacies Reveal Differing Migration Patterns Of Settlement And Conquest. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetics-reveal-migrations-differences-from-neolithic-families-to-bronze-age-male-conquerors-/. (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. (1992) [Comments on Cincinnati Airport Bond Issue]. 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

Olson, Laura L. (2012) Of Hell and High Water: Longitudinal Case Studies of the Internal and External Recovery Efforts of Non-Governmental Organizations after Hurricane Katrina. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Greenhouse, Linda. (2007) Chief Justice Advocates Higher Pay for Judiciary. New York Times: A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schmidt 2012; Tao and Zheng 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tao and Zheng 2012)
Three authors: (Ingle, Beasley, and Geballe 2002)
7 or more authors: (Liu, Liu, Spring, Qian, Cui, and Xu 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