How to format your references using the Mediterranean Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Politics. 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

Zerhouni, E. (2003) Embryonic stem cells. Stem cell programs Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621), pp. 911–12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Owen-Hughes, T., & M. Bruno (2004) Molecular biology. Breaking the silence Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), pp. 324–25.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina, A.Y., L.D. Talley, & D.L. Rudnick (2003) Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), pp. 1952–55.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lange, A., K. Giller, S. Hornig, M.-F. Martin-Eauclaire, O. Pongs, S. Becker, & M. Baldus (2006) Toxin-induced conformational changes in a potassium channel revealed by solid-state NMR Nature, 440(7086), pp. 959–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langton, R. (2006) Stability and Control of Aircraft Systems (Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

An edited book

Sun, M., Z. Liu, M. Zhang, & Y. Liu (Eds) (2015) Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data: 14th China National Conference, CCL 2015 and Third International Symposium, NLP-NABD 2015, Guangzhou, China, November 13-14, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9427) (Cham: Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Roberts, J. (2008) John Roberts on Hugo F. Sonnenschein in: Jackson, M. O. & A. McLennan (Eds) Foundations in Microeconomic Theory: A Volume in Honor of Hugo F. Sonnenschein (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 Mediterranean Politics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, July 3) NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will Arrive At Jupiter This Week, Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-juno-spacecraft-will-arrive-at-jupiter-this-week/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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 (2007) Motor Carrier Safety: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Has Developed a Reasonable Framework for Managing and Testing Its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 Initiative (No. GAO-08-242R) (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

Tran, L.N. (2013) Low-cost vehicle remote diagnostic system (Doctoral dissertation) California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Neuman, W. (2015, August 30) In a Venezuelan Town, a State of Emergency Is Barely Perceptible New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zerhouni, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Owen-Hughes & Bruno, 2004; Zerhouni, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Owen-Hughes & Bruno, 2004)
Three authors: (Shcherbina, Talley, & Rudnick, 2003)
6 or more authors: (Lange et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mediterranean Politics
ISSN (print)	1362-9395
ISSN (online)	1743-9418
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