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The APSA (American Political Science Association) manual remains the standard style guide in the Political Science discipline upon which students, junior faculty members, and well-established scholars authoring manuscripts, as well as editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders, can rely. APSA style, in most instances, follows guidelines set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (CMS). Throughout this companion website, CMS citation numbers are included in parentheses, when appropriate, to refer readers to specific sections of CMS’s 17th edition.
Many of the rules applicable to books are applicable to periodicals including the treatment of authors, editors or translators, years, titles, and volume and page numbers. The elements listed are included, where applicable, in each reference on a reference list, taken from the periodical’s front matter (14.165).
Example of Periodical References:
Example of a Periodical In-Text Citation:
The elements listed are included, where applicable, in each reference on a reference list, taken from the periodical’s front matter (14.165).
Example of a Website Reference
Example of a Website In-Text Citation
Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015).
Eaton v. IBM Corp., 925 F. Supp. 487 (S.D. Tex. 1996).
U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 2.
Homeland Security Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135 (2012).
Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, H.R. 1599, 114th Cong. (2015).
Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data: Joint Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary and the S. Comm. on Commerce, Science and Transportation, 115th Cong. (2018) (statement of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook).
112 Cong. Rec. 16 (1996).
Wis. Stat. § 36.09(3) 2015
Proclamation No. 5142, 49 Fed. Reg. 341 (1984).
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R., Aug. 5, 1963, 14 U.S.T. 1313.