How to format your references using the Res Publica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Res Publica. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Porto, J. V. 2008. Physics. Improving correlations despite particle loss. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 1300–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knaden, Markus, and Bill S. Hansson. 2013. Neuroscience. Specialized but flexible. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 151–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Wei, Thomas Cochell, and Arumugam Manthiram. 2013. Activation of aluminum as an effective reducing agent by pitting corrosion for wet-chemical synthesis. Scientific reports 3: 1229.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, Yuanqing, Yarjan Abdul Samad, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Saeed M. Alhassan, and Kin Liao. 2014. Highly electrically conductive nanocomposites based on polymer-infused graphene sponges. Scientific reports 4: 4652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim, Dae Mann. 2015. Introductory Quantum Mechanics for Applied Nanotechnology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Schuster, Alfons, ed. 2008. Robust Intelligent Systems. 1st ed. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuroki, Yuichiro, Toshio Uraoka, and Gernot W. Wolkersdörfer. 2014. High-Resolution Endoscopic Ultrasound: Clinical T-Staging of Mucosal Neoplasms. In Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions, ed. Frieder Berr, Tsuneo Oyama, Thierry Ponchon, and Naohisa Yahagi, 71–82. 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 Res Publica.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. Asian Fungus is Killing European Salamanders, U.S. May Be Next. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 3.

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. 1978. Guidelines for Survey of the Pricing of Negotiated Noncompetitive DOD Prime Contracts With McDonnell Douglas and Raytheon and NASA Prime Contracts With General Electric. 109290. 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

Howard, Gwendolyn Mcneely. 2012. Roles of vitamin D and calcium in cancer and diet history. 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

de la MERCED, Michael J. 2017. SoftBank Leads Big Stake In Virtual-Reality Designer. New York Times, May 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Porto 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Porto 2008; Knaden and Hansson 2013).

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

Two authors: (Knaden and Hansson 2013)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Res Publica
Abbreviation	Res Publica
ISSN (print)	1356-4765
ISSN (online)	1572-8692
Scope	Philosophy Law