• Reserved for issues not handled in the manuscript
• May address overlap with work by the author that is published or to be published elsewhere
• May address special considerations relevant for the selection of reviewers 
• May address problems of confidentiality that are difficult to resolve without withholding relevant information

Authors also have the option of using the APSR template in the free-to-use online collaborative LaTeX tool, Overleaf. This tool helps authors follow the APSR manuscript format and provides several other useful features, including an intuitive interface; version control and a typeset preview of the article; collaborative tools allowing the sharing of the article with co-authors and the ability to highlight and comment on the text. More information is given below.

• Font should be 12 point for the main text and appendices.
• Double-space main text (not necessary for footnotes, and references)
• Page numbers are required on all pages.
• Use footnotes, not endnotes.
• Avoid acronyms or computational abbreviations when discussing variables.

• Should be readable in grayscale. If submitting in color, please vary colors not by shade, but by intensity and tones. We recommend increments of 15-85%.
• NOTE: When printing in grayscale, classic blue, black, red and green all look the same.
• The costs of printing published color figures are the responsibility of the author.

Author-Date system of the 17th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style

• Information can be found in Chapter 15, Documentation II: Author-Date References
• Click here for access to the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide. Please be sure to change to Author-Date
• See below for a basic reference list example.
• Please provide authors’ first and last names, rather than last name and first initial
• All listed references must be cited in the text, and vice versa. Do not include non-cited material in references.
• Please include a link to all non-published work, i.e., working papers, conference papers, etc.
• Publication information for each reference must be complete and correct at time of submission.

If you are using the following research tools, we recommend:

• LaTeX – biblatex, style=chicago-authordate,
• MS Word 2016 includes CMS, for previous Word versions, try the Zotero MS-Word add-in
• Zotero – Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (author-date)
• EndNote – download the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition Author-Date (B)

• Books
  • Cohen, Cathy J. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hardy-Fanta, Carol, Pei-te Lien, Dianne Pinderhughes, and Christine Marie Sierra. 2016. Contested Transformation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • U.S. Department of State. 1979. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951. Vol. II: United Nations; Western Hemisphere. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Periodicals
  • Gay, Claudine. 2001. “The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation.” American Political Science Review 95 (3): 589-602.
  • Junn, Jane. 2007. “From Coolie to Model Minority: US Immigration Policy and the Construction of Racial Identity.” Du Bois Review 4: (2): 355-73.
  • Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science.” American Political Science Review 96: (4): 713-28. 
• Chapter in Edited Collection
  • Ravi K. Perry and X. Loudon Manley. 2017. “Case Studies of Black Lesbian and Gay Candidates: Winning Identity Politics in the Obama Era.” In LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, eds. Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating, 295-308. New York: NYU Press. 
• Edited Collections
  • Brettschneider, Marla, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating, eds. 2017. LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader. New York: NYU Press.
• Dissertations
  • Smooth, Wendy. 2001. “African American Women State Legislators.” PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park. 
• Websites
  • American Political Science Association. 2013. “About the APSA Africa Workshops.” Washington, DC: American Political Science Association. Retrieved October 10, 2013 (https://web.apsanet.org/africa).
• Datasets
  • Dawson, Michael C., Ronald E. L. Brown, and James S. Jackson. National Black Politics Study. [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02018.v3

For answers to questions unaddressed here, please contact the APSR Editorial Offices at apsr@apsanet.org.

Use the Author-Date system in the following format: (Author Year, Pages). Note there is no comma between the author and the year. Separate mass citations with a semicolon.

• Do not redact your self-citations.
• Do not use footnotes for simple citations.

Examples:

• “In the book by Ahlquist and Levi (2013), …”.
• Or at the end of a sentence (Mansbridge 1986).
• Citations may appear at the end of each (in-)dependent clause.

• Figures and Tables appearing in the appendices should be lettered to distinguish them from those in the manuscript (Table A.1, A.2, Figures A.1, A.2 etc.).
• Each appendix should have a descriptive title.
• Restart the page count.
• Distinguish between online appendices and those you intend to publish in print.