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

Stewart, C. N., Jr. (2015). Songwriting and science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6246), 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty, T., & Saez, E. (2014). Inequality in the long run. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6186), 838–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riemer, J., Bulleid, N., & Herrmann, J. M. (2009). Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1284–1287.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, C. A., Roeszler, K. N., Ohnesorg, T., Cummins, D. M., Farlie, P. G., Doran, T. J., & Sinclair, A. H. (2009). The avian Z-linked gene DMRT1 is required for male sex determination in the chicken. Nature, 461(7261), 267–271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva, Z. (2017). Nano- and Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ikeuchi, K. (Ed.). (2014). Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeo, K. K., & Laird, J. R. (2012). Subclavian and Upper Extremity Interventions. In D. L. Bhatt (Ed.), Peripheral and Cerebrovascular Intervention (pp. 99–114). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, September 4). It May Be Possible To Train Your Brain To Prefer Healthier Food. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/it-may-be-possible-train-your-brain-prefer-healthier-food/. 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. (2017). Indian Affairs: Actions Needed to Better Manage Indian School Construction Projects (No. GAO-17-447). 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

Ciolek, R. (2017). A Mixed Method Study on the Missouri Beginning Teachers Assistance Program and Teacher Retention in Saint Louis School Districts (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 7). A Hero’s Journey Is a Real Head Trip. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Piketty and Saez 2014; Stewart 2015).

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

Two authors: (Piketty and Saez 2014)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2009)

About the journal

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