How to format your references using the World Politics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World 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	Download the output style file
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

Bernstein, Alan. 2013. “Collaboration: Link the World’s Best Investigators.” Nature 496, no. 7443: 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilbert, Daniel T., and Timothy D. Wilson. 2007. “Prospection: Experiencing the Future.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317, no. 5843: 1351–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Overby, Casey Lynnette, George Hripcsak, and Yufeng Shen. 2014. “Estimating Heritability of Drug-Induced Liver Injury from Common Variants and Implications for Future Study Designs.” Scientific Reports 4: 5762.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Asfaw, Berhane, W. Henry Gilbert, Yonas Beyene, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Giday WoldeGabriel, Elisabeth S. Vrba, and Tim D. White. 2002. “Remains of Homo Erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia.” Nature 416, no. 6878: 317–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi, Nak-Eon, and Jung H. Han. 2015. How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Odaka, Konosuke, ed. 2016. The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present and Prospects. 1st ed. 2016 Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

García-Montero, Luis G., Santiago Mancebo Quintana, Miguel A. Casermeiro, Isaabel Otero Pastor, and Abdrés Monzón de Cáceres. 2010. “A GIS Raster Model for Assessing the Environmental Quality of Spain Focused on SEA and Infrastructure Planning Procedures (LATINO Model).” In Sébastien Rauch, G. M. Morrison, and Andrés Monzón, eds. Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 World Politics.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “A Solar Storm Put A Crack In Earth’s Magnetic Field.” IFLScience IFLScience. At https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-storm-crack-earths-magnetic-field/, 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. 1993. “Mass Transit: Federal Participation in Transit Benefit Programs.” T-RCED-93-72 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

Robert, Lance A. 2015. “The Impact of Community-Based Mentoring on African American Boys Using an Attribution-Retraining Curriculum.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2016. “105 Years Ago.” New York Times, June 24: C25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	World Politics
Abbreviation	World Polit.
ISSN (print)	0043-8871
ISSN (online)	1086-3338
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations