How to format your references using the Public Organization Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Public Organization 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

Dekker, J. (2008). Gene regulation in the third dimension. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1793–1794.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yue, Y., & Angell, C. A. (2004). Clarifying the glass-transition behaviour of water by comparison with hyperquenched inorganic glasses. Nature, 427(6976), 717–720.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasnaoui, A., Van Swygenhoven, H., & Derlet, P. M. (2003). Dimples on nanocrystalline fracture surfaces as evidence for shear plane formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1550–1552.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jiang, B., Liu, H., Ru, X., Zhang, H., Wu, S., & Wang, W. (2014). Hypertension detection, management, control and associated factors among residents accessing community health services in Beijing. Scientific reports, 4, 4845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horrocks, G. (2010). Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Wettestad, J. (2016). Rescuing EU Emissions Trading: The Climate Policy Flagship. (T. Jevnaker, Ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Jalongo, M. R., & Machado, C. (2016). Workshop/Professional Development Sessions. In C. Machado (Ed.), Making Effective Presentations at Professional Conferences: A Guide for Teachers, Graduate Students and Professors (pp. 55–61). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Public Organization Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 3). World’s Oldest Engravings Discovered on 500,000-Year-Old Shells. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1982). Agreement Needed on DOD Guidelines for Exempting Certain ADP Equipment and Service Procurements From the Brooks Act (No. GGD-82-52). 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

Marquez, R. A. (2009). Examining coping skills used to deal with daily stressors of law enforcement (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

Vecsey, G. (2010, December 30). Some Northern Flair for a Pinstripe Affair. New York Times, p. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dekker 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dekker 2008; Yue and Angell 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yue and Angell 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Organization Review
Abbreviation	Public Organ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1566-7170
ISSN (online)	1573-7098
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Law