Political Perspectives Referencing Guide (Printable Version)

1. HARVARD STYLE BIBLIOGRAPHY
In this system, references in the body of the text are placed between parentheses and contain the last name of the author (with initial only if you refer to different authors who happen to have the same last name), a comma and the year of publication (suffixed with 'a' or 'b' or 'c' if that author has published in the same year more than one piece of work which you want to refer to), and then a colon and the pages to which you are referring.

For example: (Smith, 1994: 35-6).

If you refer to more than one work at the same time, enclose all the references within the same parentheses and separate each reference from the next by a semi-colon.

For example: (Smith, 1994: 35-6; Webb, 1995: 301).

References in the bibliography should be listed alphabetically by the author's name(s). The name of the author is followed by his or her initials, a full stop and then the date of publication. The entry then continues with different formats depending upon whether the contribution is a book, an article or a chapter in an edited collection.

For example

Book:

Johannsen, Robert W. 1973. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Oxford University Press.
Trundle, Robert C. Jr. 1994. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aldershot: Avebury.

Journal article:

• Webb, Paul D. 1995. "Are British Political Parties in Decline?," Party Politics 1: 299-322.
  
• Agassi, Joseph. 1998. "Knowledge Personal or Social," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28 (4): 522-51.
  

Chapter in an edited volume/collection:

• Dunleavy, Patrick. 1994. "The Political Parties," in Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Gamble, Ian Holliday, and Gillian Peele, eds., Developments in British Politics 4th edition, pp. 123-53. London: Macmillan.
  
• Edwards, Peter. 1998. "The Future of Ethics," in Oliver Leaman, ed., The Future of Philosophy, 41-61. London: Routledge.

When Bibliography lists more than one source for the same author from same year:

Bowler, Shaun and David Farrell. 1995a. "A British PR Election Testing STV with London's Voters," Representation, 32: 90-94.
Bowler, Shaun and David Farrell. 1995b. "The Organizing of the European Parliament: Committees, Specialization, and Coordination," British Journal of Political Science, 25: 219-43.
Towell, P. 1995a, "Rebellious House Republicans Help Crush Defence Bill," Congressional Quarterly, 30 Sept., pp. 3013-16.
Towell, P. 1995b, "Congress Clears Defence Bill," Congressional Quarterly, 18 Nov., p. 3550.

2. QUOTATIONS

When quoting directly, single quotation marks should be used. Any quotations over five lines in length should remove their quotation marks and be indented (0.5 both left and right margin).

3. TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Tables and illustrations should be submitted on separate pages, with their location notes in the text. Graph and diagrams (illustrations) must be in a form suitable for reproduction without retouching.

4. OTHER STYLE NOTES

• Spelling: use UK spelling and punctuation. Use ~ise/~isation/~ising throughout.
  
• Punctuation/Spacing: Single space only after all punctuation (full points, commas, colons, semi-colons, closing parenthesis). Initials should be spaced: A. J. Smith not A.J.Smith. Use full points after abbreviations (e.g., i.e., etc.) but not after units of measurement or contractions (kg vols eds).
  
• Use minimum capitalisation for all headings i.e. only use capitals for the first letter and proper nouns ('The title of the article' not 'The Title of the Article').
  
• Numbers: spell out numbers (whether ordinal or cardinal) below 100. Exceptions: a series of numbers appearing close together; numbers giving exact measurements or with abbreviated units of measurement such as 7 kg, 15.8mm; in usual cases like 5.00 p.m. (put five o'clock); phrases involving hundreds, thousands, millions, etc. where round numbers are given (e.g. two hundred, fifteen thousand); per cent (not percent); use % only in tables;
  
• Dates: use the style, 31 January 1984; use 1930s, not thirties, 30s or '30s.

5. EDITING

The editors retain the right to make minor stylistic changes to the finally accepted typescript. Any substantial changes will, of course, be referred back first to the author. Feedback will not be given unless the article is going through to publication.
All contributions are accepted for publication on the understanding that they represent the original work of their authors. This does not, however, preclude publication elsewhere.