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

Coyne, Jerry A (2006) Comment on ‘Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5788): 761; author reply 761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collins, Sinéad & Graham Bell (2004) Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga. Nature 431(7008): 566–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor, Sue, Rintaro Ono & Chris Clarkson (2011) Pelagic fishing at 42,000 years before the present and the maritime skills of modern humans. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334(6059): 1117–1121.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coe, Seth, Wing-Keung Woo, Moungi Bawendi & Vladimir Bulović (2002) Electroluminescence from single monolayers of nanocrystals in molecular organic devices. Nature 420(6917): 800–803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui, James Bao-Yen (2004) Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sata, Masataka (ed.) (2016) Mouse Models of Vascular Diseases. 1st ed. 2016. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Jingyi Jessica & Xin Tong (2016) Genomic Applications of the Neyman–Pearson Classification Paradigm. In: Ka-Chun Wong (ed.) Big Data Analytics in Genomics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 145–167.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan (2016) Distant Exoplanets Around Other Stars More Likely To Be Ice Giants Like Neptune. IFLScience. IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/space/distant-exoplanets-around-other-stars-more-likely-to-be-ice-giants-like-neptune/).

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 (2014) Aviation Safety: Additional Oversight Planning by FAA Could Enhance Safety Risk Management. GAO-14-516. 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

Cook, Ann Elizabeth (2010) Gas Hydrate-Filled Fracture Reservoirs on Continental Margins. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Vecsey, George (2011) Gridiron and Steel Toughened Judge In Clemens Case. New York Times 3 March: B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coyne, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Collins & Bell, 2004; Coyne, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Collins & Bell, 2004)
Three authors: (O’Connor, Ono & Clarkson, 2011)
4 or more authors: (Coe et al., 2002)

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