How to format your references using the Studies in Comparative International Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Comparative International Development. 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

Lipkin HJ. The structure of matter. Nature. 2000 Jul 13;406(6792):127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frede J, Jones PH. Development. Permission to proliferate. Science. 2013 Dec 6;342(6163):1183–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logvenov G, Gozar A, Bozovic I. High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science. 2009 Oct 30;326(5953):699–702.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Park S-W, Kaimoyo E, Kumar D, Mosher S, Klessig DF. Methyl salicylate is a critical mobile signal for plant systemic acquired resistance. Science. 2007 Oct 5;318(5847):113–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pétrowski A, Ben-Hamida S. Evolutionary Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Dame RF, Olenin S, editors. The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems Nida, Lithuania 4–9 October 2003. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Elliott M. Stigmergic Collaboration: A Framework for Understanding and Designing Mass Collaboration. In: Cress U, Moskaliuk J, Jeong H, editors. Mass Collaboration and Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–84.

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 Studies in Comparative International Development.

Blog post

Andrew E. Supersymmetry Dealt Another Blow By LHC. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. School Lunch Program: Role and Impacts of Private Food Service Companies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Aug. Report No.: RCED-96-217.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pulido MD. Self-Reported Emotional State as a Measure of Interpersonal Vulnerability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Dudziak ML. Trump and America’s Promise. New York Times. 2016 Jul 23;A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipkin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Frede and Jones 2013; Lipkin 2000).

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

Two authors: (Frede and Jones 2013)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Comparative International Development
Abbreviation	Stud. Comp. Int. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0039-3606
ISSN (online)	1936-6167
Scope	Development Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations