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

Greenfield, Patricia M. (2009) Technology and Informal Education: What Is Taught, What Is Learned. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 69–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Touma, Jihad R., and S. Sridhar. (2015) The Disruption of Multiplanet Systems through Resonance with a Binary Orbit. Nature 524: 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin, Adam C., Matthias Kaschube, and Eric F. Wieschaus. (2009) Pulsed Contractions of an Actin-Myosin Network Drive Apical Constriction. Nature 457: 495–499.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Driskell, Amy C., Cécile Ané, J. Gordon Burleigh, Michelle M. McMahon, Brian C. O’meara, and Michael J. Sanderson. (2004) Prospects for Building the Tree of Life from Large Sequence Databases. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 1172–1174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinsen, Ulfert. (2017) Kostenrechnung in Der Bauwirtschaft. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Mullen, Kevin D., and Ravi K. Prakash, Eds. (2012) Hepatic Encephalopathy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Buur, Jacob, and Marcelle Stienstra. (2007) Towards Generic Interaction Styles for Product Design. In Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Julie A. Jacko. 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

Luntz, Stephen. (2015) Prospects Revived For Life Around Low-Mass Stars. 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. (1992) Remedial Education: Modifying Chapter 1 Formula Would Target More Funds to Those Most in Need. 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

Proser, Michelle. (2015) Ingredients for Optimal Care: Exploring Factors Associated with Patient Quality Outcomes among Federally-Qualified Health Centers. 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

Barron, James. (2016) Rebirth of a Bronx Housing Complex Aims to Cut Crime and Increase Homes. New York Times: A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greenfield 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Greenfield 2009; Touma and Sridhar 2015).

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

Two authors: (Touma and Sridhar 2015)
Three authors: (Martin, Kaschube, and Wieschaus 2009)
7 or more authors: (Driskell, Ané, Burleigh, McMahon, O’meara, and Sanderson 2004)

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