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    <title>APSA Style Manual revised 2018 edition</title>
    <title-short>American Political Science Association</title-short>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-political-science-association</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-political-science-association" rel="self"/>
    <link href="https://connect.apsanet.org/stylemanual/" rel="documentation"/>
    <author>
      <name>Julian Onions</name>
      <email>julian.onions@gmail.com</email>
    </author>
    <contributor>
      <name>Sebastian Karcher</name>
    </contributor>
    <contributor>
      <name>Patrick O'Brien</name>
    </contributor>
    <contributor>
      <name>Aaron Guerra</name>
    </contributor>
    <category citation-format="author-date"/>
    <category field="political_science"/>
    <summary>The American Political Science Association style. Et al rules based on published APSR articles</summary>
    <updated>2026-01-03T19:06:08+00:00</updated>
    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
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