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

Webster, R. G. 2001. ‘Virology. A molecular whodunit’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 1773–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, G. T. & Pitnick, S. 2002. ‘Sperm-female coevolution in Drosophila’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, 1230–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambanis, N., Schulhofer-Wohl, J. & Shayo, M. 2012. ‘Social psychology. Parochialism as a central challenge in counterinsurgency’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, 805–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ito, H. et al. 2013. ‘Earth’s youngest exposed granite and its tectonic implications: the 10-0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite’, Scientific reports 3, 1306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Damrosch, D. 2017. How to Read World Literature. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Miculan, M., Scagnetto, I. & Honsell, F. eds. 2008. Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2007, Cividale des Friuli, Italy, May 2-5, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong, P. Y. H. & Gibbons, J. 2007. ‘A Process-Algebraic Approach to Workflow Specification and Refinement’, in Lumpe, M. & Vanderperren, W., eds. Software Composition: 6th International Symposium, SC 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 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

Andrews, R. 2016. ‘New Lizard Is A Dead Ringer For Its Cuban Cousin’, IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-lizard-is-a-dead-ringer-for-its-cuban-cousin/ [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 2001. NASA: Status of Plans for Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges. 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

Murray, E. 2012. California community college athletic directors lived experience and perceptions about financing issues with athletic programs. Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Vecsey, G. 2012. ‘The Old Guard Welcomes The New Guard’, New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Webster 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Webster 2001; Miller & Pitnick 2002).

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

Two authors: (Miller & Pitnick 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ito et al. 2013)

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