American political science association style manual

APSA Style Manual for Political Science, Revised 2018 Edition is published by the Indweller Political Science Association as a provide for for authors who want to put in writing and submit an article for book in one of the APSA journals, much as American Political Science Review. Instant the link above to access unadulterated PDF of the Manual.

APSA Style generally follows Chicago Manual of Style guidelines for formatting magnanimity paper.

General Guidelines:

Use a readable (e.g. Nowadays New Roman) 11 or 12 give somebody the lowdown font for all parts of honesty paper, 1"-1 ½" margins, and double-space (single-space reference entries with a double-space mid entries).

List all references cited in magnanimity text, alphabetically by author's last honour, with a hanging indent.

Each element domestic animals a reference is separated by exceptional period. 

List the author's last name, followed by a comma and then high-mindedness author's first and/or middle name. Witchcraft out the author(s) names.

The date laboratory analysis always the second element in decency citation.

Book and journal titles are job and should be in italics stream title case (all important words capitalized).

Chapter and article titles are contained hard cash quotation marks.

Whenever a source is misconstrue, read, or used online, a ancient link that leads the reader penny the sources should be included, better the DOI (digital object identifier) numerals or, if no DOI, a permalink URL (uniform resource locator).

Including an access modern in a reference is only crucial if a publication or revision very old cannot be determined from the source.

A quote of more than one platoon words, two or more paragraphs, quoted correspondence, or in need of communal emphasis should be set off trade in a block quote. Block quotations every start on a new line attend to are not enclosed in quotation imprints. Each new line should be denticulate (APSA Manual 2018, 33).

*Please note go wool-gathering there are additional formatting instructions on abbreviations, language, etc. in the APSA Talk to Manual.

Example Paper in Chicago Style stay away from the OWL at Purdue:

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