How to format your references using the Philippine Political Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Philippine Political Science Journal. 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

Fairley, W. B. 2000. “Outrageous Events: Don’t Count Them Out.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5492): 715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe, Alain, and Diego Contreras. 2006. “Neuronal Computations with Stochastic Network States.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5796): 85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Xiaofeng, Xiaojie Chen, and Long Wang. 2014. “Random Allocation of Pies Promotes the Evolution of Fairness in the Ultimatum Game.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4534.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ashikari, Motoyuki, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Shaoyang Lin, Toshio Yamamoto, Tomonori Takashi, Asuka Nishimura, Enrique R. Angeles, Qian Qian, Hidemi Kitano, and Makoto Matsuoka. 2005. “Cytokinin Oxidase Regulates Rice Grain Production.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5735): 741–745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park, Sejin, and Georges Guille-Escuret. 2017. Sociobiology vs Socioecology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

López-Gracia, Maria L. 2007. Left-Right Asymmetry in Vertebrate Development. Edited by Marian Ros. Vol. 188. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Wei, Yong Cui, Shengling Wang, and Xiuzhen Cheng. 2010. “Approximate Optimization for Proportional Fair AP Association in Multi-Rate WLANs.” In Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Gopal Pandurangan, V. S. Anil Kumar, Gu Ming, Yunhao Liu, and Yingshu Li, 36–46. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Philippine Political Science Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “NASA Plans Exo-Brake Parachute Test To Bring Satellites Out Of Orbit.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-plans-exo-brake-parachute-test-to-bring-satellites-out-of-orbit/.

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. 1987. Aviation Weather: Status of FAA’s New Hazardous Weather Detection and Dissemination Systems. RCED-87-208. 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

Heitz, Sarah Lindsey. 2017. “A Mindfulness Approach to Help Teachers And Staff Provide Support to High School Students: A Self-Instructional Curriculum.” 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

Hodgman, John. 2017. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, July 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fairley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fairley 2000; Destexhe and Contreras 2006).

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

Two authors: (Destexhe and Contreras 2006)
Three authors: (Wang, Chen, and Wang 2014)
4 or more authors: (Ashikari et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Philippine Political Science Journal
Abbreviation	Philipp. Polit. Sci. J.
ISSN (print)	0115-4451
ISSN (online)	2165-025X
Scope	Political Science and International Relations