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

Bornens, M. (2012). The centrosome in cells and organisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6067), 422–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meier, M. F., & Dyurgerov, M. B. (2002). Sea level changes. How Alaska affects the world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 350–351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher, K. P., Bass, R. B., & Rees, D. C. (2003). Structural biology. Breaching the barrier. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5633), 603–604.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Behrens, T. E. J., Hunt, L. T., Woolrich, M. W., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2008). Associative learning of social value. Nature, 456(7219), 245–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H. K., & English, P. (2011). Capital Budgeting Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yore, L. D., Flier-Keller, E. V. der, Blades, D. W., Pelton, T. W., & Zandvliet, D. B. (Eds.). (2011). Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Winter, A., Haux, R., Ammenwerth, E., Brigl, B., Hellrung, N., & Jahn, F. (2011). Modeling Health Information Systems. In R. Haux, E. Ammenwerth, B. Brigl, N. Hellrung, & F. Jahn (Eds.), Health Information Systems: Architectures and Strategies (pp. 43–73). 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 Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 3). Medical Marijuana - What’s It Good For? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medical-marijuana-what’s-it-good/

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. (2005). Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems (GAO-05-896T). 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

Gillaspy, K. M. (2012). Words of Samsara [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

Meyer, J. A., & Meyer, L. R. (2007, March 4). All Prosecution Is Local. New York Times, CT15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bornens, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bornens, 2012; Meier & Dyurgerov, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Meier & Dyurgerov, 2002)
Three authors: (Locher et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Behrens et al., 2008)

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