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

Hustad, Phillip D. 2009. Frontiers in olefin polymerization: reinventing the world’s most common synthetic polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 704–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffin, John M., and Jonathan P. Stoye. 2009. Virology. A new virus for old diseases? Science (New York, N.Y.) 326: 530–531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holmberg, Vincent C., Matthew G. Panthani, and Brian A. Korgel. 2009. Phase transitions, melting dynamics, and solid-state diffusion in a nano test tube. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326: 405–407.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tang, Fusheng, Emily J. Kauffman, Jennifer L. Novak, Johnathan J. Nau, Natalie L. Catlett, and Lois S. Weisman. 2003. Regulated degradation of a class V myosin receptor directs movement of the yeast vacuole. Nature 422: 87–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowers, David, Allan House, and David Owens. 2011. Getting Started in Health Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnakone, P., Gerardo A. Corzo, Maria Elena de Lima, and Elia Diego-García, ed. 2016. Spider Venoms. Toxinology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kappauf, Jens, Bernd Lauterbach, and Matthias Koch. 2011. Production Logistics. In Logistic Core Operations with SAP: Procurement, Production and Distribution Logistics, ed. Bernd Lauterbach and Matthias Koch, 139–170. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Res Publica.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. In Defence Of Racer Snakes – The Demons Of Planet Earth II (They’re Only After A Meal). IFLScience. IFLScience. November 9.

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. 1995. Federal Family Education Loan Information System: Weak Computer Controls Increase Risk of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data. AIMD-95-117. 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

Stout, Jewell. 2017. The Effects of Discipline with African-American Males at an Alternative Middle School: The Perceptions of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Academic Stakeholders. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2008. Justices Will Hear Case On Evidence Suppression. New York Times, February 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hustad 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Coffin and Stoye 2009; Hustad 2009).

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

Two authors: (Coffin and Stoye 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2003)

About the journal

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