How to format your references using the The Leadership Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Leadership Quarterly. 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

Hartmann, D. L. (2002). Climate change. Tropical surprises. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 811–812.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singel, D. J., & Stamler, J. S. (2004). Blood traffic control. Nature, 430(6997), 297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Budday, S., Raybaud, C., & Kuhl, E. (2014). A mechanical model predicts morphological abnormalities in the developing human brain. Scientific Reports, 4, 5644.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kim, J.-M., Jang, H.-J., Choi, S. Y., Park, S.-A., Kim, I. S., Yang, Y. R., Lee, Y. H., Ryu, S. H., & Suh, P.-G. (2014). DJ-1 contributes to adipogenesis and obesity-induced inflammation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marks, K. H., Robbins, L. E., Fernández, G., Funkhouser, J. P., & Williams, D. L. (2009). The Handbook of Financing Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Monteiro, J., & Leuken, R. van (Eds.). (2010). Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation: 19th International Workshop, PATMOS 2009, Delft, The Netherlands, September 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 5953). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bieg, H., & Krämer, G. (2006). Banking Supervision in Europe: From Basel I to Basel II. In C. Scholz & J. Zentes (Eds.), Strategic Management — New Rules for Old Europe (pp. 73–82). Gabler.

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 The Leadership Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 26). Declining Sperm Quality in Older Men Puts the Issue at the Centre of Fertility Debate. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/declining-sperm-quality-older-men-puts-issue-centre-fertility-debate/

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. (2009). Aviation Security: Status of Transportation Security Inspector Workforce (GAO-09-123R). 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

Hoefer, P. D. (2010). A David against Goliath: The American veterans committee’s challenge to the American legion in the 1950s [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2010, September 15). Russia: Fire Destroys Church Near Ravine Where Remains of a Czar Were Found. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hartmann, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hartmann, 2002; Singel & Stamler, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Singel & Stamler, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Leadership Quarterly
Abbreviation	Leadersh. Q.
ISSN (print)	1048-9843
Scope	Business and International Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology Sociology and Political Science