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

Thompson, J.N. (2012) Evolution. The role of coevolution Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6067), pp. 410–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayes, R., & H. Weiss (2006) Epidemiology. Understanding HIV epidemic trends in Africa Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), pp. 620–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli, D., R. Bisconti, & G. Nascetti (2014) Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications Scientific Reports, 4, p. 6516.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Steinhart, M., J.H. Wendorff, A. Greiner, R.B. Wehrspohn, K. Nielsch, J. Schilling, … U. Gösele (2002) Polymer nanotubes by wetting of ordered porous templates Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), p. 1997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burton, E. (2016) Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Thakuriah, P. (vonu) (2013) Transportation and Information: Trends in Technology and Policy (Geers, D. G., Ed.) (New York, NY: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Catena, di L.M. (2011) Quaranta storie narrate con… in: Davoli, I. (Ed) Oltre i materiali. La scienza tra le nostre dita: Quaranta storie di lavoro e formazione (Milano: 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

Andrew, E. (2016, April 25) How To Run A Marathon (Hint: It’s All In The Mind), Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-run-marathon-hint-it-s-all-mind/ (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 (1996) Contracts Under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (No. OGC-96-23) (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

Bono, S. (2013) Perceptions of Psychological Abuse and the Impact of Blame and Gender Role Beliefs (Doctoral dissertation) Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2015, August 20) Russia Sentences Estonian to 15 Years in Spy Case 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 (Thompson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hayes & Weiss, 2006; Thompson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hayes & Weiss, 2006)
Three authors: (Canestrelli, Bisconti, & Nascetti, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Steinhart et al., 2002)

About the journal

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