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

Peoples, Laura L. 2002. “Neuroscience. Will, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, and Addiction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5573): 1623–1624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., and X. L. Ma. 2013. “Local Decomposition Induced by Dislocation Motions inside Tetragonal Al(2)Cu Compound: Slip System-Dependent Dynamics.” Scientific Reports 3 (November): 3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalancon, Guilhem, Kai Kruse, and M. Madan Babu. 2012. “Cell Biology. Reconfiguring Regulation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6072): 1050–1051.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Qi, Wei, Juanjuan Bi, Xiaoyong Zhang, Jing Wang, Jianjun Wang, Peng Liu, Zhan Li, and Wangsuo Wu. 2014. “Damaging Effects of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Pregnant Mice with Different Pregnancy Times.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malhotra, Girish. 2010. Chemical Process Simplification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Degiorgio, Vittorio. 2014. Photonics: A Short Course. Edited by Ilaria Cristiani. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Buesching, Christina D., H. Veronica Tinnesand, Yungwa Sin, Frank Rosell, Terry Burke, and David W. Macdonald. 2016. “Coding of Group Odor in the Subcaudal Gland Secretion of the European Badger Meles Meles: Chemical Composition and Pouch Microbiota.” In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13, edited by Bruce A. Schulte, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Michael H. Ferkin, 45–62. 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

Evans, Katy. 2016. “You Will Probably Be Stereotyped If You Use These Words.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. D.C. Emergency Highway Relief Act. RCED-96-196R. 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

Gade, Sandeep. 2017. “Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Dominus, Interview by Susan. 2014. “‘My Moves Speak for Themselves.’” New York Times, January 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peoples 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Peoples 2002; Chen and Ma 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma 2013)
Three authors: (Chalancon, Kruse, and Babu 2012)
4 or more authors: (Qi 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