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

Farr, N. L. (2000). Questioning placebo controls. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5472), 1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoekstra, H. E., & Price, T. (2004). Evolution. Parallel evolution is in the genes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5665), 1779–1781.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hagan, C. L., Kim, S., & Kahne, D. (2010). Reconstitution of outer membrane protein assembly from purified components. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 890–892.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kinchen, J. M., Cabello, J., Klingele, D., Wong, K., Feichtinger, R., Schnabel, H., Schnabel, R., & Hengartner, M. O. (2005). Two pathways converge at CED-10 to mediate actin rearrangement and corpse removal in C. elegans. Nature, 434(7029), 93–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jawlik, A. A. (2016). Statistics from A to Z: Confusing Concepts Clarified. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Katlic, M. R. (Ed.). (2011). Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Elderly: Evidence-Based Practice. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fornasiero, R., Chiodi, A., Carpanzano, E., & Carneiro, L. (2010). Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods. In Á. Ortiz, R. D. Franco, & P. G. Gasquet (Eds.), Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 36–44). 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

Davis, J. (2015, November 9). 2015 Global Temperatures Set To Pass 1°C Of Warming. 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. (1992). Student Financial Aid: Most Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants Are Awarded to Needy Students (HRD-92-47). 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

Lee, J. Y. (2008). Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio 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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr. (2017, April 18). Man’s Murder Conviction Set Aside at D.A.’s Request. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Farr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Farr, 2000; Hoekstra & Price, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hoekstra & Price, 2004)
Three authors: (Hagan et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Kinchen et al., 2005)

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