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

Lee R. The outlook for population growth. Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):569–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller FD, Kaplan DR. Neurobiology. TRK makes the retrograde. Science. 2002 Feb 22;295(5559):1471–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacace F, de Petris G, Troiani A. Experimental detection of tetranitrogen. Science. 2002 Jan 18;295(5554):480–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gasser S, Orsulic S, Brown EJ, Raulet DH. The DNA damage pathway regulates innate immune system ligands of the NKG2D receptor. Nature. 2005 Aug 25;436(7054):1186–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossiter A. Professional Excellence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Tillema H, Westhuizen GJ van der, Smith K, editors. Mentoring for Learning: “Climbing the Mountain.” Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Martín-Alcalde E, Saurí S, Ng AKY. Port-Focal Logistics and the Evolution of Port Regions in a Globalized World. In: Lee PT-W, Cullinane K, editors. Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy: Volume 2: Emerging Trends in Ports. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 102–27.

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

Taub B. The Brain Receptor Responsible For OCD Has Been Identified. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal-Aid Highways: States Need Guidance on Sales or Leases of Real Property Purchased with Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Dec. Report No.: GAO-03-207.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seitz AE. Epidemiology, Spatial Distribution, and Treatment Patterns of Blastomycosis in the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. The Ball at Their Feet, Their Fate in Their Hands. New York Times. 2011 Jul 12;B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lee 2011; Miller and Kaplan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Kaplan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Gasser et al. 2005)

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