How to format your references using the Scandinavian Political Studies citation style

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

Cerutti, A. 2010. ‘Immunology. IgA changes the rules of memory’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, 1646–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Symington, L. S. & Holloman, W. K. 2004. ‘Molecular biology. New Year’s resolution--resolving resolvases’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 303, 184–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, S. A., Simoes-Costa, M. & Bronner, M. E. 2015. ‘Evolution of vertebrates as viewed from the crest’, Nature 520, 474–82.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Carter, J. A. et al. 2011. ‘KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 331, 562–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brunet, R. 2013. Sustainable Geography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Klaas, M., Koch, E. & Schröder, W. eds. 2011. Fundamental Medical and Engineering Investigations on Protective Artificial Respiration: A Collection of Papers from the DFG Funded Research Program PAR. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dempe, S. et al. 2015. ‘Mixed-Integer Bilevel Programming Problems’, in Kalashnikov, V., Pérez-Valdés, G. A., & Kalashnykova, N., eds. Bilevel Programming Problems: Theory, Algorithms and Applications to Energy Networks. Energy Systems, 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 Scandinavian Political Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2016. ‘El Niño Is Over, But Has Left Its Mark Across The World’, IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/el-ni-o-over-has-left-its-mark-across-world/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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 2006. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Vietnamese Version). 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

Butts, P. 2017. Green Roof Vegetable Production in Three Different Growth Media. Doctoral dissertation. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Poniewozik, J. 2017. ‘A Tabloid Murder Tale of Little Suspense’, New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cerutti 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cerutti 2010; Symington & Holloman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Symington & Holloman 2004)
Three or more authors: (Carter et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scandinavian Political Studies
Abbreviation	Scan. Polit. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0080-6757
ISSN (online)	1467-9477
Scope	Sociology and Political Science