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

Sapolsky, Robert M. 2011. “Behavior. Sympathy for the CEO.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6040): 293–294.

A journal article with 2 authors

Halloran, M. Elizabeth, and Ira M. Longini Jr. 2006. “Public Health. Community Studies for Vaccinating Schoolchildren against Influenza.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5761): 615–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mossinger, Juliane, Michael White, and Patrick Goymer. 2013. “Coastal Regions.” Nature 504 (7478): 35.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jiang, Xupin, Xiaowei Guo, Xue Xu, Miao Teng, Chong Huang, Dongxia Zhang, Qiong Zhang, Jiaping Zhang, and Yuesheng Huang. 2014. “Hypoxia Regulates CD9-Mediated Keratinocyte Migration via the P38/MAPK Pathway.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maudlin, Tim. 2011. Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Polini, Marco, Giovanni Vignale, Vittorio Pellegrini, and Jainendra K. Jain, eds. 2016. No-Nonsense Physicist: An Overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s Work and Life. Vol. 2. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore.

A chapter in an edited book

Martinez-Duarte, R., G. Turon Teixidor, P. P. Mukherjee, Q. Kang, and M. J. Madou. 2010. “Perspectives of Micro and Nanofabrication of Carbon for Electrochemical and Microfluidic Applications.” In Microfluidics and Microfabrication, edited by Suman Chakraborty, 181–263. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. 2015. “Galapagos Island Hosts First Baby Tortoises In A Century.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/galapagos-island-hosts-first-baby-tortoises-century/.

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. 1988. FAA Appropriation Issues. T-RCED-88-35. 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

Bartaula, Binayak. 2017. “Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States.” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State, MS: 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

Kelly, Kate. 2017. “A Top Goldman Veteran Gets Trump’s Attention on Jobs, Taxes and More.” New York Times, February 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sapolsky 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Sapolsky 2011; Halloran and Longini 2006).

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

Two authors: (Halloran and Longini 2006)
Three authors: (Mossinger, White, and Goymer 2013)
4 or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

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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