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

Veltman C. Genesis of a high-tech hub. Nature. 2003 Dec 11;426(6967):700–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forterre Y, Dumais J. Materials science. Generating helices in nature. Science. 2011 Sep 23;333(6050):1715–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Misura KM, Scheller RH, Weis WI. Three-dimensional structure of the neuronal-Sec1-syntaxin 1a complex. Nature. 2000 Mar 23;404(6776):355–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Coen A, Cincotta RP, Bloom D, Canning D. Family planning programs and national prosperity. Science. 2000 Jun 9;288(5472):1747d–8d.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balan V, Neagu M. Jet Single-Time Lagrange Geometry and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Dhiman S, Marques J, editors. Spirituality and Sustainability: New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Mendoza G, Khero Z. Building Pakistan’s Resilience to Flood Disasters in the Indus River Basin. In: Tortajada C, editor. Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 81–110.

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

Andrews R. Fish Are Fooled By Optical Illusions In Exactly The Same Way We Are. 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. Aircraft Noise: Eight Airports’ Efforts to Mitigate Noise. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Sep. Report No.: RCED-89-189.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dean DO. A discrete-time multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model for investigating the order and timing of multiple non-repeatable events [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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

Schmidt MS, Apuzzo M, Haberman M. Mueller Is Said to Seek White House Interviews in Russia Inquiry. New York Times. 2017 Aug 12;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veltman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Forterre and Dumais 2011; Veltman 2003).

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

Two authors: (Forterre and Dumais 2011)
Three or more authors: (Coen et al. 2000)

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