How to format your references using the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Colombo, P. (2008). Materials science. In praise of pores. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), 381–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wandzioch, E., & Zaret, K. S. (2009). Dynamic signaling network for the specification of embryonic pancreas and liver progenitors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1707–1710.

A journal article with 3 authors

Enquist, B. J., Haskell, J. P., & Tiffney, B. H. (2002). General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities. Nature, 419(6907), 610–613.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liao, E. H., Hung, W., Abrams, B., & Zhen, M. (2004). An SCF-like ubiquitin ligase complex that controls presynaptic differentiation. Nature, 430(6997), 345–350.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter, R. J. (1998). Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Howard, J. A., & Hood, E. E. (Eds.). (2014). Commercial Plant-Produced Recombinant Protein Products: Case Studies (Vol. 68). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheng, Z., Dewilde, P., & Chandrasekaran, S. (2007). Algorithms to Solve Hierarchically Semi-separable Systems. In D. Alpay & V. Vinnikov (Eds.), System Theory, the Schur Algorithm and Multidimensional Analysis (pp. 255–294). Birkhäuser.

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 Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 11). After Our Universe’s Cosmic Dawn, What Happened To All Its Original Hydrogen? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-our-universes-cosmic-dawn-what-happened-to-all-its-original-hydrogen/

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. (1991). Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volumes 66-70, September 1991 (156871). 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

Poyaoan-Linzaga, M. R. (2014). The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients [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

Crair, B. (2017, August 16). Books; Instagram Effect. New York Times, ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colombo, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Colombo, 2008; Wandzioch & Zaret, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wandzioch & Zaret, 2009)
Three authors: (Enquist et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Liao et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
ISSN (print)	2169-9763
ISSN (online)	2169-978X
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science