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

Gewin, Virginia. 2005. “Baby Blues.” Nature 433 (7027): 780–781.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wasserman, S. A., and S. DiNardo. 2001. “Development. Staying a Boy Forever.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5551): 2495–2497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Daviter, Tina, Frank V. Murphy 4th, and V. Ramakrishnan. 2005. “Molecular Biology. A Renewed Focus on Transfer RNA.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5725): 1123–1124.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Aillaud, Chrystelle, Christophe Bosc, Leticia Peris, Anouk Bosson, Pierre Heemeryck, Juliette Van Dijk, Julien Le Friec, et al. 2017. “Vasohibins/SVBP Are Tubulin Carboxypeptidases (TCPs) That Regulate Neuron Differentiation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 358 (6369): 1448–1453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker, Egbert, and Rienk Van Grondelle. 2011. Environmental Physics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Malagoli, Davide, and Enzo Ottaviani, eds. 2014. Eco-Immunology: Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rémillard, Bruno, Alexandre Hocquard, Hugues Langlois, and Nicolas Papageorgiou. 2012. “Optimal Hedging of American Options in Discrete Time.” In Numerical Methods in Finance: Bordeaux, June 2010, edited by René A. Carmona, Pierre Del Moral, Peng Hu, and Nadia Oudjane, 145–170. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. “Is Mars Already Forming A Ring System?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/is-mars-already-forming-a-ring-system/.

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. 2010. Higher Education: Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters. GAO-11-10. 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

Dobson, Elizabeth C. 2012. “Elizabeth C. Dobson Consulting and Design: A Business Plan for Aging-in-Place Resources.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Conte, Linda. 2011. “Scouting Report.” New York Times, April 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2005; Wasserman and DiNardo 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wasserman and DiNardo 2001)
Three authors: (Daviter, Murphy, and Ramakrishnan 2005)
4 or more authors: (Aillaud et al. 2017)

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