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

Damasio, A. 2001. “Fundamental Feelings.” Nature 413 (6858): 781.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, Li, and Donald J. Weidner. 2008. “Effect of Phase Transitions on Compressional-Wave Velocities in the Earth’s Mantle.” Nature 454 (7207): 984–986.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cronin, T. W., R. L. Caldwell, and J. Marshall. 2001. “Sensory Adaptation. Tunable Colour Vision in a Mantis Shrimp.” Nature 411 (6837): 547–548.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kroutvar, Miro, Yann Ducommun, Dominik Heiss, Max Bichler, Dieter Schuh, Gerhard Abstreiter, and Jonathan J. Finley. 2004. “Optically Programmable Electron Spin Memory Using Semiconductor Quantum Dots.” Nature 432 (7013): 81–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardner, Susannah, and Shane Birley. 2010. Blogging for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Kohl, Helmut. 2008. Transmission Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation. Edited by Ludwig Reimer. Vol. 36. Springer Series in Optical Sciences. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eriksson, Lars, Johan Wahlström, and Markus Klein. 2010. “Physical Modeling of Turbocharged Engines and Parameter Identification.” In Automotive Model Predictive Control: Models, Methods and Applications, edited by Luigi del Re, Frank Allgöwer, Luigi Glielmo, Carlos Guardiola, and Ilya Kolmanovsky, 53–71. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. London: 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 Nationalities Papers.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “NASA Has Found A ‘Morse Code Message’ On The Surface Of Mars.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-has-found-a-morse-code-message-on-the-surface-of-mars/.

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. 1986. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. 130998. 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

Marcheschi, Regina L. 2010. “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Individuals with Epilepsy by Marriage and Family Therapists and Social Workers.” 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

Saslow, Linda. 2007. “The Week; Lowe’s Completes Deal To Buy Catering Hall.” New York Times, July 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Damasio 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Damasio 2001; Li and Weidner 2008).

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

Two authors: (Li and Weidner 2008)
Three authors: (Cronin, Caldwell, and Marshall 2001)
4 or more authors: (Kroutvar et al. 2004)

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