How to format your references using the Political Behavior citation style

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

Melton, L. (2003). Pharmacogenetics and genotyping: on the trail of SNPs. Nature, 422(6934), 917, 919, 921, 923.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pandey, A., & Guyot-Sionnest, P. (2008). Slow electron cooling in colloidal quantum dots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 929–932.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara, J. M., Fawcett, T. W., & Houston, A. I. (2013). An adaptive response to uncertainty generates positive and negative contrast effects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1084–1086.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lippert, C., Quon, G., Kang, E. Y., Kadie, C. M., Listgarten, J., & Heckerman, D. (2013). The benefits of selecting phenotype-specific variants for applications of mixed models in genomics. Scientific reports, 3, 1815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunt-Ahmed, K. (2013). Contemporary Islamic Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gong, Z., Luo, X., Chen, J., Lei, J., & Wang, F. L. (Eds.). (2011). Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 6988). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yusuf, F., Martins, J. M., & Swanson, D. A. (2014). Elements of Demographic Analysis. In J. M. Martins & D. A. Swanson (Eds.), Methods of Demographic Analysis (pp. 59–95). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Political Behavior.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, September 21). Most Comprehensive Tree Of Life For 2.3 Million Species Created. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/most-comprehensive-tree-life-23-million-species-created/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1997). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Time Is Running Out for Federal Agencies to Prepare for the New Millennium (No. T-AIMD-97-129). 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

Garcia, R. D. (2008). Designing an autonomous helicopter testbed: From conception through implementation (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Blinder, A., & Philipps, D. (2017, July 14). Marine Crash Victims: Young Fathers, a Humming Sergeant, a Proud Texan. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Melton 2003; Pandey and Guyot-Sionnest 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pandey and Guyot-Sionnest 2008)
Three or more authors: (Lippert et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Political Behavior
Abbreviation	Polit. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0190-9320
ISSN (online)	1573-6687
Scope	Sociology and Political Science