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

Rishbeth, Henry. 2002. “High above the Earth.” Nature 418 (6893): 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnaswamy, Venkat Raghavan, and Purna Sai Korrapati. 2014. “Role of Dermatopontin in Re-Epithelialization: Implications on Keratinocyte Migration and Proliferation.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7385.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson, Andrew, Jaideep Mavoori, and Eberhard E. Fetz. 2006. “Long-Term Motor Cortex Plasticity Induced by an Electronic Neural Implant.” Nature 444 (7115): 56–60.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shi, Yumeng, Ye Wang, Jen It Wong, Alex Yuan Sheng Tan, Chang-Lung Hsu, Lain-Jong Li, Yi-Chun Lu, and Hui Ying Yang. 2013. “Self-Assembly of Hierarchical MoSx/CNT Nanocomposites (2<x<3): Towards High Performance Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries.” Scientific Reports 3: 2169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jarry, Pierre, and Jacques N. Beneat. 2016. Microwave Amplifier and Active Circuit Design Using the Real Frequency Technique. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rausch, Peter, Alaa F. Sheta, and Aladdin Ayesh, eds. 2013. Business Intelligence and Performance Management: Theory, Systems and Industrial Applications. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira, Leticia, Francesc Balaguer, and Ajay Goel. 2015. “The Epigenetics in Intestinal Tumorigenesis.” In Intestinal Tumorigenesis: Mechanisms of Development & Progression, edited by Vincent W. Yang and Agnieszka B. Bialkowska, 137–168. 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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “Researchers Are Developing A Blood-Powered Laser To Hunt Tumors.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-are-developing-a-blood-powered-laser-to-hunt-tumors/.

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. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System. IMTEC-92-61BR. 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

Hartley, Daniel Leclair. 2010. “Transnational Jazz and Blues: Aural Aesthetics and African Diasporic Fiction.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Williams, John. 2017. “A Hidden Hero Brought to Light.” New York Times, October 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rishbeth 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rishbeth 2002; Krishnaswamy and Korrapati 2014).

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

Two authors: (Krishnaswamy and Korrapati 2014)
Three authors: (Jackson, Mavoori, and Fetz 2006)
4 or more authors: (Shi et al. 2013)

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