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

Fuyuno, I. (2011). Japan: Will the sun set on Kampo? Nature, 480(7378), S96.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zamore, P. D., & Haley, B. (2005). Ribo-gnome: the big world of small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5740), 1519–1524.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cubrović, M., Zaanen, J., & Schalm, K. (2009). String theory, quantum phase transitions, and the emergent Fermi liquid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 439–444.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yoshida, R., Tsubota, K., Ishiga, T., Sunagawa, M., Sonoyama, J., Aoki, D., Flouquet, J., Wakita, T., Muraoka, Y., & Yokoya, T. (2013). Translational symmetry breaking and gapping of heavy-quasiparticle pocket in URu₂Si₂. Scientific Reports, 3, 2750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D. (2007). Emerging Real Estate Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Arabnia, H. R., & Tran, Q.-N. (Eds.). (2011). Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems (Vol. 696). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, A., Das, T., & Yeasmin, S. (2015). Conclusion. In T. Das & S. Yeasmin (Eds.), Nanoparticles in Lung Cancer Therapy - Recent Trends (pp. 63–65). Springer India.

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. (2015, October 18). Animal Parenting: Mothers That Play Favorites, Why Whales Have Menopause, And Adults Who Have Sex With Infants. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/guest-blog-nature-sex-3/

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. (1976). Actions Needed To Improve the Federal Communications Commission’s Financial Disclosure System (FPCD-76-51). 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

Bai, H. (2017). Cognitive processes of prioritization in multitasking [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 1). Questions Add to Drumbeat of Mets Injuries. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fuyuno, 2011; Zamore & Haley, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Zamore & Haley, 2005)
Three authors: (Cubrović et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Yoshida et al., 2013)

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