How to format your references using the Politics, Groups, and Identities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Politics, Groups, and Identities. 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

Randolph, Gwendalyn J. 2011. “Immunology. No Need to Coax Monocytes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6035): 1268–1269.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purves, Drew, and Stephen Pacala. 2008. “Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5882): 1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Normark, Staffan, Christina Nilsson, and Birgitta Henriques Normark. 2005. “Microbiology. A Pathogen Attacks While Keeping up Defense.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5713): 1211–1212.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Martin, Karen H., Jill K. Slack, Scott A. Boerner, Clifford C. Martin, and J. Thomas Parsons. 2002. “Integrin Connections Map: To Infinity and Beyond.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5573): 1652–1653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener, Eberhard. 2003. Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Edenhofer, Ottmar, Johannes Wallacher, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Reder, Brigitte Knopf, and Johannes Müller, eds. 2012. Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability: Linking Climate and Development Policy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zuckerman, Gregg. 2012. “Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules.” In Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods, edited by Anthony Joseph, Anna Melnikov, and Ivan Penkov, 123–143. Progress in Mathematics. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “Monkeys Are Aware Of The Unreliability Of Their Memories.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkeys-are-aware-of-the-unreliability-of-their-memories/.

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. 2007. Motor Carrier Safety: Federal Safety Agency Identifies Many High-Risk Carriers but Does Not Assess Maximum Fines as Often as Required by Law. GAO-07-584. 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

Boerner, Carole L. 2013. “The Organizational Culture and Leadership Values That Impact Native American Water Utility Organizations.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. “The Weeknd Remains at No. 1 on the Charts.” New York Times, January 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Randolph 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Randolph 2011; Purves and Pacala 2008).

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

Two authors: (Purves and Pacala 2008)
Three authors: (Normark, Nilsson, and Normark 2005)
4 or more authors: (Martin et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Politics, Groups, and Identities
Abbreviation	Polit. Groups Identities
ISSN (print)	2156-5503
ISSN (online)	2156-5511
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