How to format your references using the Population Research and Policy Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Population Research and Policy Review. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Grayson, M. (2010). Introduction: Curiosity aroused. Nature, 467(7317), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taleff, E. M., & Pedrazas, N. A. (2013). Materials science. A new route for growing large grains in metals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1461–1462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biek, R., Drummond, A. J., & Poss, M. (2006). A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5760), 538–541.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shankaran, V., Ikeda, H., Bruce, A. T., White, J. M., Swanson, P. E., Old, L. J., & Schreiber, R. D. (2001). IFNgamma and lymphocytes prevent primary tumour development and shape tumour immunogenicity. Nature, 410(6832), 1107–1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, A. (2009). Getting Started in Consulting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Borangiu, T., Thomas, A., & Trentesaux, D. (Eds.). (2015). Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing (Vol. 594). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Guescini, M., Stocchi, L., Di Loreto, C., Fatone, C., De Feo, P., & Stocchi, V. (2007). Molecular Modifications Induced by Physical Exercise: A Significant Role in Disease Prevention. In V. Stocchi, P. D. Feo, & D. A. Hood (Eds.), Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life (pp. 83–99). Milano: 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 Population Research and Policy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 16). Promising Antibody That Neutralises HIV Shows Why We Shouldn’t Give Up On A Vaccine. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-antibody-neutralises-hiv-shows-why-we-shouldn-t-give-vaccine/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1980). The Road to a Billion Dollar Saving: A Team Effort (No. 113269). 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

Samel, C. (2014). Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, October 18). Pearl Jam, Shakur Among Rock Nominees. New York Times, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson 2010; Taleff and Pedrazas 2013).

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

Two authors: (Taleff and Pedrazas 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shankaran et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Population Research and Policy Review
Abbreviation	Popul. Res. Policy Rev.
ISSN (print)	0167-5923
ISSN (online)	1573-7829
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Demography