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

Triendl, R. 2000. “Japan Sets Tissue Donor Guidelines.” Nature 404 (6778): 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goette, Lorenz, and Stephan Meier. 2011. “Economics. Can Integration Tame Conflicts?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6061): 1356–1357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahl, Christoph D., Chien-Chung Chen, and Malte J. Rasch. 2014. “Own-Race and Own-Species Advantages in Face Perception: A Computational View.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6654.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhao, Y., S. K. Christensen, C. Fankhauser, J. R. Cashman, J. D. Cohen, D. Weigel, and J. Chory. 2001. “A Role for Flavin Monooxygenase-like Enzymes in Auxin Biosynthesis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5502): 306–309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakshi, Amol B., and Viktor K. Prasanna. 2007. Architecture-Independent Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Agrawal, Divyakant, K. Selçuk Candan, and Wen-Syan Li, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services: Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud. Vol. 74. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharland, Michael, and Thomas A. Hammeke. 2010. “Steamrolled: Sports-Related Concussions.” In Pediatric Neuropsychology Case Studies: From the Exceptional to the Commonplace, edited by Jennifer Niskala Apps, Robert F. Newby, and Laura Weiss Roberts, 43–49. New York, NY: 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 Intervention and Statebuilding.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2015. “Diesel Fumes Make It Difficult For Bees To Recognize Scents.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2006. Electronic Government: Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing New Federal Employee Identification Standard. GAO-06-178. 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

Bennett, Andrew L. 2019. “An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Powell, Michael. 2017. “The Home Run Explosion Is Not Exactly Beyond Suspicion.” New York Times, September 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2000; Goette and Meier 2011).

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

Two authors: (Goette and Meier 2011)
Three authors: (Dahl, Chen, and Rasch 2014)
4 or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2001)

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