How to format your references using the Policy Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Policy Studies. 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

Chipman, Andrea. 2007. “Contest Puts Brakes on Carbon Capture.” Nature 447 (7148): 1044–1045.

A journal article with 2 authors

Janssen, Michel, and Jürgen Renn. 2015. “History: Einstein Was No Lone Genius.” Nature 527 (7578): 298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Narayan, Vijay, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Narayanan Menon. 2007. “Long-Lived Giant Number Fluctuations in a Swarming Granular Nematic.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5834): 105–108.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hoffmann, A. A., B. L. Montgomery, J. Popovici, I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe, P. H. Johnson, F. Muzzi, M. Greenfield, et al. 2011. “Successful Establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes Populations to Suppress Dengue Transmission.” Nature 476 (7361): 454–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, Joyce, and Rachel Roberts. 2015. Vital Signs for Nurses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Agarwal, Ravi P. 2014. Oscillation and Stability of Delay Models in Biology. Edited by Donal O’Regan and Samir H. Saker. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, Wentao, Licheng Jiao, Shiping Ma, and Yuelei Xu. 2005. “Analytical Solution for Dynamic of Neuronal Populations.” In Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations – ICANN 2005: 15th International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2005. Proceedings, Part I, edited by Włodzisław Duch, Janusz Kacprzyk, Erkki Oja, and Sławomir Zadrożny, 19–24. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, Moni Naor, et al. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Policy Studies.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Humans Can ‘See’ Individual Photons, Claims Study.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 20. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/humans-can-see-individual-photons-claims-study/.

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. 1985. [Request for Opinion Concerning Exchange Agreements Between Patent and Trademark Office and Private Firms]. B-217448. 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

Ravilla, Sreeveena. 2013. “Correlation between Diabetes and Periodontitis.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Robles, Frances, and Alan Blinder. 2015. “A Stark Image of a Shooting Carries Impact.” New York Times, April 9, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chipman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chipman 2007; Janssen and Renn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Janssen and Renn 2015)
Three authors: (Narayan, Ramaswamy, and Menon 2007)
4 or more authors: (Hoffmann et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Policy Studies
ISSN (print)	0144-2872
ISSN (online)	1470-1006
Scope	Political Science and International Relations