How to format your references using the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 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

Lipton, Peter. 2005. “Testing Hypotheses: Prediction and Prejudice.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5707): 219–221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedoroff, Nina, and Walter Fontana. 2002. “Genetic Networks. Small Numbers of Big Molecules.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5584): 1129–1131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lev, Maria, Oren Yehezkel, and Uri Polat. 2014. “Uncovering Foveal Crowding?” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4067.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bostock, M. G., R. D. Hyndman, S. Rondenay, and S. M. Peacock. 2002. “An Inverted Continental Moho and Serpentinization of the Forearc Mantle.” Nature 417 (6888): 536–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baber, Robert Laurence. 2011. The Language of Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gairing, Martin, and Rahul Savani, eds. 2016. Algorithmic Game Theory: 9th International Symposium, SAGT 2016, Liverpool, UK, September 19–21, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9928. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, Liang, Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu, and Athman Bouguettaya. 2014. “Database Replication of NoSQL Database-as-a-Service.” In Cloud Data Management, edited by Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu, and Athman Bouguettaya, 67–80. Cham: 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 Intervention and Statebuilding.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Thai Police Charge 22 People From The Tiger Temple With Wildlife Trafficking.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thai-police-charge-22-people-from-the-tiger-temple-with-wildlife-trafficking/.

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. 1990. Railroad Safety: More FRA Oversight Needed to Ensure Rail Safety in Region 2. RCED-90-140. 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

Wester, Aaron Micah. 2013. “Readers’ Trust, Socio-Demographic, and Acuity Influences in Citizen Journalism Credibility for Disrupted Online Newspapers.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: 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

Dorman, John L. 2017. “Tessa Kiros, Food Writer, on France’s Sway.” New York Times, March 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lipton 2005; Fedoroff and Fontana 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fedoroff and Fontana 2002)
Three authors: (Lev, Yehezkel, and Polat 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bostock et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
ISSN (print)	1750-2977
ISSN (online)	1750-2985
Scope	Law Political Science and International Relations