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

Harvey, Ralph P. 2010. “Planetary Science. Carbonates and Martian Climate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5990): 400–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Talapin, Dmitri V., and Christopher B. Murray. 2005. “PbSe Nanocrystal Solids for N- and p-Channel Thin Film Field-Effect Transistors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5745): 86–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparks, R. S. J., J. Biggs, and J. W. Neuberg. 2012. “Geophysics. Monitoring Volcanoes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6074): 1310–1311.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hsu, Chia-Wen, Jinghua Zhao, Ruili Huang, Jui-Hua Hsieh, Jon Hamm, Xiaoqing Chang, Keith Houck, and Menghang Xia. 2014. “Quantitative High-Throughput Profiling of Environmental Chemicals and Drugs That Modulate Farnesoid X Receptor.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, Zhi Ning, and Michael Y. W. Chia. 2006. Broadband Planar Antennas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Anslow, Craig, Pedro Campos, and Joaquim Jorge, eds. 2016. Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Özgen, Selim, and Mübeccel Demirekler. 2016. “A Fast Elimination Method for Pruning in POMDPs.” In KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 39th Annual German Conference on AI, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings, edited by Gerhard Friedrich, Malte Helmert, and Franz Wotawa, 56–68. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Philippine Political Science Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. “This Incredible Futuristic Hoverbike Is Like Something Straight Out Of Star Wars.” 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. 2009. Missouri River Navigation: Data on Commodity Shipments for Four States Served by the Missouri River and Two States Served by Both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. GAO-09-224R. 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

Strickland, Kelli C. 2012. “A Historical Analysis of the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa.” 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

Welles, Lauren, and John Leland. 2017. “Coney Island, Ever Changing.” New York Times, July 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harvey 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Harvey 2010; Talapin and Murray 2005).

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

Two authors: (Talapin and Murray 2005)
Three authors: (Sparks, Biggs, and Neuberg 2012)
4 or more authors: (Hsu et al. 2014)

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