How to format your references using the Central European Journal of Public Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central European Journal of Public Policy (CEJPP). 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Vogel, G. (2000). DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5485), 1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brosnan, S. F., & De Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature, 425(6955), 297–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chakravarty, S., Kee, H.-Y., & Völker, K. (2004). An explanation for a universality of transition temperatures in families of copper oxide superconductors. Nature, 428(6978), 53–55.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nagamatsu, J., Nakagawa, N., Muranaka, T., Zenitani, Y., & Akimitsu, J. (2001). Superconductivity at 39 K in magnesium diboride. Nature, 410(6824), 63–64.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boutillier, S., Carré, D., & Levratto, N. (2016). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grünig, R. (2012). Developing International Strategies: Going and Being International for Medium-sized Companies (D. Morschett, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mohr, D., & Zachmann, G. (2010). Silhouette Area Based Similarity Measure for Template Matching in Constant Time. In F. J. Perales & R. B. Fisher (Eds.), Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 6th International Conference, AMDO 2010, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 43–54). 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 Central European Journal of Public Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 30). Babbler Bird Speak is Remarkably Human-Like. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blabber-bird-speak-remarkably-human/

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. (2016). Genetically Engineered Crops: USDA Needs to Enhance Oversight and Better Understand Impacts of Unintended Mixing with Other Crops (GAO-16-241). 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

Morgan, A. J. (2017). Analyzing Red and Gray Stages of Bark Beetle Attack in the San Bernardino National Forest Using Remote Sensing [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

Nir, S. M. (2017, May 19). For Family Reeling From Death in Times Square Crash, ‘Nothing Is Safe Anymore.’ New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brosnan & De Waal, 2003; Vogel, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Brosnan & De Waal, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nagamatsu et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central European Journal of Public Policy
ISSN (online)	1802-4866
Scope