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. 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

Telling, Glenn (2015). ‘Neurodegeneration: Evolved protection against human prions’, Nature, 522:7557, 423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kanan, Matthew W., and Daniel G. Nocera (2008). ‘In situ formation of an oxygen-evolving catalyst in neutral water containing phosphate and Co2+’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 321:5892, 1072–1075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ebel, Chantal, Luisa Mariconti, and Wilhelm Gruissem (2004). ‘Plant retinoblastoma homologues control nuclear proliferation in the female gametophyte’, Nature, 429:6993, 776–780.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Berger, Philip J., Elizabeth M. Skuza, Vojta Brodecky, and Malcolm H. Wilkinson (2002). ‘Physiology: the ventilatory response to hypoxia’, Nature, 419:6908, 686; discussion 686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quadbeck-Seeger, Hans-Jürgen (2007). World of the Elements. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Johnson, Deborah J., Debrenna Lafa Agbényiga, and Robert K. Hitchcock, eds. (2013). Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahlswede, Rudolf (2016). ‘Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems’, in Alexander Ahlswede, Ingo Althöfer, Christian Deppe, and Ulrich Tamm (eds.), Hiding Data - Selected Topics: Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 3, Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 225–336.

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

Hale, Tom (2017). ‘Roman British Skeleton Buried Face Down With Mutilated Tongue Puzzles Archaeologists’, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/roman-british-skeleton-buried-face-down-with-mutilated-tongue-puzzles-archaeologists/ (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 (2005). ‘Information Technology: HHS Has Several Investment Management Capabilities in Place, but Needs to Address Key Weaknesses’, , 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

Kim, Sun-Chul Defiant institutionalization: Democratization and social movements in South Korea, 1984–2002. Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia 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

Packer, George ‘Celebrating Inequality’. New York Times, May 20, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Telling 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kanan and Nocera 2008; Telling 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kanan and Nocera 2008)
Three or more authors: (Berger et al. 2002)

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