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

Cannon, Bill. (2013) Sensation and Loss. Nature 503: S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, Kris, and Roberta M. Humphreys. (2012) The Great Eruption of η Carinae. Nature 486: E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krumholz, Mark R., Christopher F. McKee, and Richard I. Klein. (2005) The Formation of Stars by Gravitational Collapse Rather than Competitive Accretion. Nature 438: 332–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du, Zixiu, Mustafa M. Munye, Aristides D. Tagalakis, Maria D. I. Manunta, and Stephen L. Hart. (2014) The Role of the Helper Lipid on the DNA Transfection Efficiency of Lipopolyplex Formulations. Scientific reports 4: 7107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, John H. (2011) Statistics for Compensation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jhala, Ranjit, and David Schmidt, Eds. (2011) 6538 Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation: 12th International Conference, VMCAI 2011, Austin, TX, USA, January 23-25, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dede, Ercan M., Jaewook Lee, and Tsuyoshi Nomura. (2014) Electromechanical System Simulation and Optimization Studies. In Multiphysics Simulation: Electromechanical System Applications and Optimization, Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications, edited by Jaewook Lee and Tsuyoshi Nomura. London: 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

Davis, Josh. (2017) Students Develop Straw That Can Test For Date Rape Drugs. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/students-develop-straw-that-can-test-for-date-rape-drugs/. (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) Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1990. 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

Terrell, Neal D. (2012) Exact Solutions to Combinatorial Optimizations and the Traveling Baseball Fan Problem. 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

Al-Batati, Saeed, and Ben Hubbard. (2016) Bank Defends Dealing With Al Qaeda When It Called the Shots. New York Times: A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cannon 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson and Humphreys 2012; Cannon 2013).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Humphreys 2012)
Three authors: (Krumholz, McKee, and Klein 2005)
7 or more authors: (Du, Munye, Tagalakis, Manunta, and Hart 2014)

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