How to format your references using the Journal of International Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Studies (JIS). 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

Zahnle, K. (2015). Planetary science. Play it again, SAM. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6220), 370–371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, E. T., & Love, S. G. (2005). Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids. Nature, 438(7065), 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Monteggia, L. M., Malenka, R. C., & Deisseroth, K. (2014). Depression: the best way forward. Nature, 515(7526), 200–201.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yuan, Y., Xu, W., He, X., Liu, H., Cao, S., Qi, X., Huang, K., & Luo, Y. (2013). Effects of genetically modified T2A-1 rice on the GI health of rats after 90-day supplement. Scientific Reports, 3, 1962.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener, E. (2003). Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Zhang, H. (2010). Recursive Partitioning and Applications (B. H. Singer, Ed.; Second, Vol. 0). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Saha, S. (2013). Clustering Algorithms. In S. Saha (Ed.), Unsupervised Classification: Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications (pp. 75–92). 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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 19). Autism Risk Linked To Prenatal Exposure To Air Pollution. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/autism-risk-linked-prenatal-exposure-air-pollution/

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. (2015). Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options (GAO-15-663). 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

McCourt, S. B. (2008). A phenomenological study of anticipated housing, healthcare, and biopsychosocial needs of aging female baby boomers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Prochnik, G. (2017, January 6). He Remade Kings. New York Times, BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zahnle, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lu & Love, 2005; Zahnle, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lu & Love, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Studies
ISSN (print)	2071-8330
ISSN (online)	2306-3483
Scope