How to format your references using the Politikon citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Politikon. 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

Friedman, Matt. 2009. “Paleontology. Emerging onto a Tangled Bank.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5925): 341–342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barbour, Dennis L., and Xiaoqin Wang. 2003. “Contrast Tuning in Auditory Cortex.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5609): 1073–1075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kieffer, Hugh H., Philip R. Christensen, and Timothy N. Titus. 2006. “CO2 Jets Formed by Sublimation beneath Translucent Slab Ice in Mars’ Seasonal South Polar Ice Cap.” Nature 442 (7104): 793–796.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

de Marcillac, Pierre, Noël Coron, Gérard Dambier, Jacques Leblanc, and Jean-Pierre Moalic. 2003. “Experimental Detection of Alpha-Particles from the Radioactive Decay of Natural Bismuth.” Nature 422 (6934): 876–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, M. K. 1995. Affine and Projective Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bockstael, Nancy E. 2007. Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models. Edited by Kenneth E. McConnell. Vol. 7. The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedersen Zari, Maibritt. 2015. “Can Biomimicry Be a Useful Tool for Design for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation?” In Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering, edited by Fernando Pacheco Torgal, J. A. Labrincha, M. V. Diamanti, C-P Yu, and H. K. Lee, 81–113. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Politikon.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Mice Who Feel Less Pain Also Live Longer, Burn More Calories.” 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. 1986. University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. 130998. 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

Bladen, Laurie. 2014. “Relationship of Embodied Nursing Knowledge and Client Outcomes in Home Health.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Lee, Linda. 2013. “Not at First Sight, or Even the First Dozen.” New York Times, August 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman 2009; Barbour and Wang 2003).

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

Two authors: (Barbour and Wang 2003)
Three authors: (Kieffer, Christensen, and Titus 2006)
4 or more authors: (de Marcillac et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Politikon
ISSN (print)	0258-9346
ISSN (online)	1470-1014
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations