How to format your references using the Journal of Peace Research citation style

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

Donath, Judith (2007) Computer science. Virtually trustworthy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5834): 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rouyer, François & Abhishek Chatterjee (2015) Circadian clocks: A receptor for subtle temperature changes. Nature 527(7579): 449–451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Innocenti, Paolo, Edward H Morrow & Damian K Dowling (2011) Experimental evidence supports a sex-specific selective sieve in mitochondrial genome evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332(6031): 845–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, Hau-Vei, Chien-Chung Lin, Yu-Lin Tsai, Hsin-Chu Chen, Kuo-Ju Chen, Yun-Ling Yeh, Wen-Yi Lin, Hao-Chung Kuo & Peichen Yu (2014) A highly efficient hybrid GaAs solar cell based on colloidal-quantum-dot-sensitization. Scientific Reports 4(July): 5734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, Dave (2007) TKO Management! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Itenberg, Ilia, Burglind Jöricke & Mikael Passare (eds) (2012) Perspectives in Analysis, Geometry, and Topology: On the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Oleg Viro. Vol. 296. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Atkinson, Rachel J, Antonis Rokas & Graham N Stone (2007) Longitudinal patterns in species richness and genetic diversity in European oaks and oak gallwasps. In: Steven Weiss & Nuno Ferrand (eds) Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Conservation of European Biodiversity. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 127–151.

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 Peace Research.

Blog post

Davis, Josh (2015) U.S. Navy To Limit Sonar Use During Training To Protect Whales And Dolphins. IFLScience. IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/us-navy-limit-use-sonar-during-training-pacific-protect-whales-and-dolphins/).

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 (1978) BPA Management of ADP Systems Development Activities. B-115369. 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

Ochse, Aaron Richard (2013) Targeted Killing, Drones and International Law: How U.S. Practice Is Shaping International Law. 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

Moschen, Isabella (2013) The Two-Wheeled Amenity. New York Times 9 June: RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donath, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Donath, 2007; Rouyer & Chatterjee, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rouyer & Chatterjee, 2015)
Three authors: (Innocenti, Morrow & Dowling, 2011)
4 or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Peace Research
Abbreviation	J. Peace Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3433
ISSN (online)	1460-3578
Scope	Safety Research Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations