How to format your references using the Psychology, Public Policy, and Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 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

Hauser, M. (2005). Our chimpanzee mind. Nature, 437(7055), 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kabeche, L., & Compton, D. A. (2013). Cyclin A regulates kinetochore microtubules to promote faithful chromosome segregation. Nature, 502(7469), 110–113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Upadhyay, D., Scherer, E. E., & Mezger, K. (2009). (142)Nd evidence for an enriched Hadean reservoir in cratonic roots. Nature, 459(7250), 1118–1121.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Andrulis, E. D., Werner, J., Nazarian, A., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., & Lis, J. T. (2002). The RNA processing exosome is linked to elongating RNA polymerase II in Drosophila. Nature, 420(6917), 837–841.

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. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dumas, M., Reichert, M., & Shan, M.-C. (Eds.). (2008). Business Process Management: 6th International Conference, BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 2-4, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5240). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Poth, S. (2014). Changing Strategies and Control Systems at a German Insurance Company. In E. Jannesson, F. Nilsson, & B. Rapp (Eds.), Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage: Case Study Evidence (pp. 107–137). 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 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 15). New Potential Driver Of Alzheimer’s Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-potential-driver-alzheimers-discovered/

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. (1998). Airport Financing: Comparing Funding Sources With Planned Development (T-RCED-98-129). 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

Szurley, J. C. (2010). The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume [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

Kelly, M. (1993, January 29). The New White House Refrain: Please Hang Up and Dial Again. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hauser, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hauser, 2005; Kabeche & Compton, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kabeche & Compton, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Andrulis et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Abbreviation	Psychol. Public Policy Law
ISSN (print)	1076-8971
ISSN (online)	1939-1528
Scope	Social Psychology Law Sociology and Political Science