How to format your references using the Journal of European Public Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of European Public Policy (RJPP). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Amos, L. A. (2008) ‘Biochemistry. Pressing levers or pulling strings?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5908): 1647–1648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward, L. D. and Kellis, M. (2013) ‘Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions”’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6133): 682.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeffrey, J. L., Terrett, J. A. and MacMillan, D. W. C. (2015) ‘O-H hydrogen bonding promotes H-atom transfer from α C-H bonds for C-alkylation of alcohols’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 349(6255): 1532–1536.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Jessop, P. G., Heldebrant, D. J., Li, X., Eckert, C. A. and Liotta, C. L. (2005) ‘Green chemistry: reversible nonpolar-to-polar solvent’, Nature 436(7054): 1102.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Morrison, T. J. (2000) Functional Analysis, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, R. (2005) Fuzzy Control of Queuing Systems, Y. A. Phillis and V. S. Kouikoglou (eds), London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian, H. et al. (2012) ‘Identification and Characterization of Lactobacillus Planetarium TH1’, in E. Zhu and S. Sambath (eds). Information Technology and Agricultural Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 31–37.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of European Public Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) No, Solar Panels Will Not Drain The Sun’s Energy, 27 May 2014, IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1984) Federal White-Collar Special Rate Program, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kehoe, M. I. (2008) Tobacco control: A qualitative assessment of the perceptions and practices of nurse practitioners. Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Schwartz, J. (2016) ‘Duane Graveline, Forced Out as Astronaut, Dies at 85’, New York Times 18 September: A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Amos 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Amos 2008; Ward and Kellis 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ward and Kellis 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jessop et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of European Public Policy
Abbreviation	J. Eur. Public Policy
ISSN (print)	1350-1763
ISSN (online)	1466-4429
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Public Administration