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

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

Cyranoski, David. (2003) Taiwan: Biotech Vision. Nature 421: 672–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, Christopher M., and David Tilman. (2008) Loss of Plant Species after Chronic Low-Level Nitrogen Deposition to Prairie Grasslands. Nature 451: 712–715.

A journal article with 3 authors

McDonald, J. J., W. A. Teder-Sälejärvi, and L. M. Ward. (2001) Multisensory Integration and Crossmodal Attention Effects in the Human Brain. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 1791.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Richey, Jeffrey E., John M. Melack, Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Victoria M. Ballester, and Laura L. Hess. (2002) Outgassing from Amazonian Rivers and Wetlands as a Large Tropical Source of Atmospheric CO2. Nature 416: 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, Gary C. (2010) Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Monvel, Anne Boutet de, Detlef Buchholz, Daniel Iagolnitzer, and Ugo Moschella, Eds. (2007) 251 Rigorous Quantum Field Theory: A Festschrift for Jacques Bros. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, S. E., P. M. Chaikin, and M. J. Naughton. (2008) La Tour Des Sels de Bechgaard. In The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors, Springer Series in Materials Science, edited by Andrei Lebed. 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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. (2014) Chemical Extracted From Broccoli Sprouts May Help Ease Autism Symptoms. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemical-extracted-broccoli-sprouts-may-help-ease-autism-symptoms/. (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. (1986) University Funding: Assessing Federal Funding Mechanisms for University Research. 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

Luna, Angela C. (2009) Analysis of the California Mental Health Services Act. 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

Pilon, Mary. (2014) At 28, Abbott Wins 4th U.S. Title and Has a Teenage Teammate for the Olympics. New York Times: D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2003; Clark and Tilman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Clark and Tilman 2008)
Three authors: (McDonald, Teder-Sälejärvi, and Ward 2001)
7 or more authors: (Richey, Melack, Aufdenkampe, Ballester, and Hess 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies Review
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1468-2486
Scope	Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations