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

Rakic, Pasko. 2004. “Neuroscience. Genetic Control of Cortical Convolutions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5666): 1983–1984.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yen, Hsueh-Chi Sherry, and Stephen J. Elledge. 2008. “Identification of SCF Ubiquitin Ligase Substrates by Global Protein Stability Profiling.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5903): 923–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, Blair W., Beth L. Pruitt, and W. James Nelson. 2015. “Cell Adhesion. Mechanical Strain Induces E-Cadherin-Dependent Yap1 and β-Catenin Activation to Drive Cell Cycle Entry.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6238): 1024–1027.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schurig, D., J. J. Mock, B. J. Justice, S. A. Cummer, J. B. Pendry, A. F. Starr, and D. R. Smith. 2006. “Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5801): 977–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadha, Ritu, and Latha Kant. 2007. Policy-Driven Mobile Ad Hoc Network Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marshak, Alexander, and Anthony Davis, eds. 2005. 3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor, Lester D. 2010. “Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys.” In Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior, edited by H. S. Houthakker, 79–88. New York, NY: 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 Politikon.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “The Cityscapes Of Tomorrow Might Include Smog-Busting SkyScrapers.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-cityscapes-of-tomorrow-might-include-smogbusting-skyscrapers/.

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. 2004. Air Traffic Control: System Management Capabilities Improved, but More Can Be Done to Institutionalize Improvements. GAO-04-901. 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

Nguyen, Jason R. 2012. “Staging Vietnamese America: Music and the Performance of Vietnamese American Identities.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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, Sean. 1999. “What Did You Expect, the Spanish Inquisition?” New York Times, July 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rakic 2004; Yen and Elledge 2008).

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

Two authors: (Yen and Elledge 2008)
Three authors: (Benham-Pyle, Pruitt, and Nelson 2015)
4 or more authors: (Schurig et al. 2006)

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