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

Hijmans, Robert J. 2011. “Comment on ‘Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6053): 177; author reply 177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Custers, Ruud, and Henk Aarts. 2010. “The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5987): 47–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, Itay, Shanan E. Peters, and Woodward W. Fischer. 2012. “Sulfate Burial Constraints on the Phanerozoic Sulfur Cycle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6092): 331–334.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ma, Dali, Chung-Hui Yang, Helen McNeill, Michael A. Simon, and Jeffrey D. Axelrod. 2003. “Fidelity in Planar Cell Polarity Signalling.” Nature 421 (6922): 543–547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schneider, Bruce D. 2007. Energy Leadership. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tweedale, Jeffrey W., Lakhmi C. Jain, Junzo Watada, and Robert J. Howlett, eds. 2015. Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice. Vol. 30. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hull, Elizabeth, Ken Jackson, and Jeremy Dick. 2011. “Writing and Reviewing Requirements.” In Requirements Engineering, edited by Ken Jackson and Jeremy Dick, 77–91. 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 Philippine Political Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Why Should We Place Our Faith In Science?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-should-we-place-our-faith-science/.

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. 1988. Air Traffic Control: Efforts to Expand the New York Terminal Area Automation System. IMTEC-88-29. 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

Crooks, Richard Henry. 2012. “Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Hubbard, Ben, and Shuaib Almosawa. 2017. “Somali Migrants’ Trek Becomes Scene of Horror.” New York Times, March 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hijmans 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hijmans 2011; Custers and Aarts 2010).

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

Two authors: (Custers and Aarts 2010)
Three authors: (Halevy, Peters, and Fischer 2012)
4 or more authors: (Ma et al. 2003)

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