How to format your references using the West European Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for West European Politics (WEP). 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

Macfadden, Bruce J. (2005). ‘Evolution. Fossil horses--evidence for evolution’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 307:5716, 1728–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt, David, and R. D. Ekers (2002). ‘Tracing black hole mergers through radio lobe morphology’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 297:5585, 1310–1313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malmgren, R. Dean, Julio M. Ottino, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral (2010). ‘The role of mentorship in protégé performance’, Nature, 465:7298, 622–626.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Huang, Le et al. (2014). ‘Graphene/Si CMOS hybrid hall integrated circuits’, Scientific reports, 4, 5548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hackshaw, Allan (2014). A Concise Guide to Observational Studies in Healthcare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Makhanov, Stanislav S. (2007). Advanced Numerical Methods to Optimize Cutting Operations of Five-Axis Milling Machines. Weerachai Anotaipaiboon (ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smyrnakis, Michalis, and Tobias Galla (2015). ‘Decentralized Optimisation of Resource Allocation in Disaster Management’, in John Preston et al. (eds.), City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 89–106.

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 West European Politics.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy (2016). ‘Will We Ever Be Able To Bring Cryogenically Frozen Corpses Back To Life? A Cryobiologist Explains’, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/will-we-ever-be-able-to-bring-cryogenically-frozen-corpses-back-to-life-a-cryobiologist-explains/ (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 (1992). ‘Operation Desert Shield: Problems in Deploying by Rail Need Attention’, , 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

Hintz, Lisel Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Baker, Peter, and Michael D. Shear ‘Trump Stirs a New Question: Are There Tapes?’ New York Times, May 12, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macfadden 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Macfadden 2005; Merritt and Ekers 2002).

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

Two authors: (Merritt and Ekers 2002)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	West European Politics
Abbreviation	West Eur. Polit.
ISSN (print)	0140-2382
ISSN (online)	1743-9655
Scope	Political Science and International Relations