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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Melançon, Charles E., 3rd. 2015. “Biochemistry: Elusive Source of Sulfur Unravelled.” Nature 518, no. 7537: 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tagle, Roald, and Philippe Claeys. 2004. “Comet or Asteroid Shower in the Late Eocene?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, no. 5683: 492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samokhvalov, Igor M., Natalia I. Samokhvalova, and Shin-Ichi Nishikawa. 2007. “Cell Tracing Shows the Contribution of the Yolk Sac to Adult Haematopoiesis.” Nature 446, no. 7139: 1056–61.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rost, Sebastian, Edward J. Garnero, Quentin Williams, and Michael Manga. 2005. “Seismological Constraints on a Possible Plume Root at the Core-Mantle Boundary.” Nature 435, no. 7042: 666–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hill, Richard, and George Solt. 2010. Engineering Money. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gatchel, Robert J., and Izabela Z. Schultz, eds. 2012. Handbook of Occupational Health and Wellness. Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimitrakakis, Christos. 2010. “Efficient Methods for Near-Optimal Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty.” In Robert Babuška and Frans C. A. Groen, eds. Interactive Collaborative Information Systems Studies in Computational Intelligence Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Venus And Jupiter Will Appear To Merge And Form A ‘Double Star’ Tonight.” IFLScience IFLScience. At https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-and-jupiter-will-meet-tomorrow-night/, 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. 2016. “Credit Programs: Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy Costs.” GAO-16-269 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

Morissette, Teresa M. 2009. “Elder Friendliness and Social Participation of Older Adults Living within Age-Segregated Retirement Communities.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Clarey, Christopher. 2017. “At 74, a Champion Who Won’t Concede.” New York Times, January 30: B8.

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