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

Lincoln, T. (2000). Cardiac arrest can be less of a gamble. Nature, 408(6810), 302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peel, M. C., & McMahon, T. A. (2006). Continental runoff: a quality-controlled global runoff data set. Nature, 444(7120), E14; discussion E14-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg, T. J., Holzwarth, R., & Diddams, S. A. (2011). Microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 555–559.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mauk, B. H., Mitchell, D. G., Krimigis, S. M., Roelof, E. C., & Paranicas, C. P. (2003). Energetic neutral atoms from a trans-Europa gas torus at Jupiter. Nature, 421(6926), 920–922.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law, H. (2013). The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Matthäus-Maier, I., & Pischke, J. D. von (Eds.). (2006). Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pérez, J., Valdez, F., & Castillo, O. (2015). A New Bat Algorithm with Fuzzy Logic for Dynamical Parameter Adaptation and Its Applicability to Fuzzy Control Design. In O. Castillo & P. Melin (Eds.), Fuzzy Logic Augmentation of Nature-Inspired Optimization Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications (pp. 65–79). Springer International Publishing.

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

Davis, J. (2017, March 20). Global Carbon Emissions Remain Constant For Third Year In A Row. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-carbon-emissions-remain-constant-for-third-year-in-a-row/

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. (2016). Intellectual Property: Patent Office Should Strengthen Search Capabilities and Better Monitor Examiners’ Work (GAO-16-479). 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

Evans, A. M. (2017). Long-Term Sustainability of Surgical Operational Improvements Post Consultancy: A Multiple Case Study Analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Barker, K., & Schweber, N. (2015, October 6). A Woman Called ‘Sweet and Shy,’ Now Accused of Killing Her Newborn. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lincoln, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lincoln, 2000; Peel & McMahon, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Peel & McMahon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mauk et al., 2003)

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