How to format your references using the Nationalities Papers citation style

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

Deweerdt, Sarah. 2010. “Dancing with an Escape Artist.” Nature 466 (7304): S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collen, Ben, and Emily Nicholson. 2014. “Conservation. Taking the Measure of Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6206): 166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholz, Matthew, Chien-Chi Lo, and Patrick S. G. Chain. 2014. “Improved Assemblies Using a Source-Agnostic Pipeline for MetaGenomic Assembly by Merging (MeGAMerge) of Contigs.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6480.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ma, Teng, Ming-Jing Zhao, Yao-Kun Wang, and Shao-Ming Fei. 2014. “Non-Commutativity and Local Indistinguishability of Quantum States.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev, Svetlozar T., Young Shin Kim, Michele Leonardo Bianchi, and Frank J. Fabozzi. 2011. Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Virvou, Maria, and Lakhmi C. Jain, eds. 2008. Intelligent Interactive Systems in Knowledge-Based Environments. Vol. 104. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schinianakis, Dimitris, and Thanos Stouraitis. 2016. “Residue Number Systems in Cryptography: Design, Challenges, Robustness.” In Secure System Design and Trustable Computing, edited by Chip-Hong Chang and Miodrag Potkonjak, 115–161. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Nationalities Papers.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “What Commercial Aircraft Will Look Like In 2050.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-commercial-aircraft-will-look-2050/.

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. 1994. [Comments on Claim for Excess Valuation Charge]. B-254831. 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

Harris, Nicole S. 2012. “The Impact of Action Learning Experience on Reflective Practice.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Dunn, Susan. 2015. “Who Lives, Who Dies.” New York Times, December 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Deweerdt 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Deweerdt 2010; Collen and Nicholson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Collen and Nicholson 2014)
Three authors: (Scholz, Lo, and Chain 2014)
4 or more authors: (Ma et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nationalities Papers
Abbreviation	Natl. Pap.
ISSN (print)	0090-5992
ISSN (online)	1465-3923
Scope	History Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations