How to format your references using the Political Geography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Political Geography. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schübeler, D. (2015). Function and information content of DNA methylation. Nature, 517(7534), 321–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clapham, P. R., & Lu, S. (2011). Vaccinology: precisely tuned antibodies nab HIV. Nature, 477(7365), 416–417.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haitin, Y., Carlson, A. E., & Zagotta, W. N. (2013). The structural mechanism of KCNH-channel regulation by the eag domain. Nature, 501(7467), 444–448.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Myers, N., Mittermeier, R. A., Mittermeier, C. G., da Fonseca, G. A., & Kent, J. (2000). Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature, 403(6772), 853–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayuk, J. L., Healey, J., Rohmeyer, P., Sachs, M. H., Schmidt, J., & Weiss, J. (2012). Cyber Security Policy Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bartl, R. (2007). Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice: Actions — Side Effects — Indications — Strategies (B. Frisch, E. von Tresckow, & C. Bartl, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Um-e-Ghazia, Masood, R., Shibli, M. A., & Bilal, M. (2012). Usage Control Model Specification in XACML Policy Language. In A. Cortesi, N. Chaki, K. Saeed, & S. Wierzchoń (Eds.), Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 11th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2012, Venice, Italy, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 68–79). 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 Political Geography.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 6). Mouse vs. Scorpion- Who Do You Think Wins? 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. (2004). Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Strengthen the Management of Its Designee Programs (GAO-05-40). 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

Malekian, A. (2009). Combinatorial problems in online advertising [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Yablonsky, L. (2010, February 28). Women’s Work. New York Times, M2142.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schübeler, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham & Lu, 2011; Schübeler, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Clapham & Lu, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Myers et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Political Geography
Abbreviation	Polit. Geogr.
ISSN (print)	0962-6298
Scope	History Geography, Planning and Development Sociology and Political Science