How to format your references using the European Journal of Population citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Population. 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

Vespignani, A. (2009). Predicting the behavior of techno-social systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 425–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

van’t Veer, L. J., & Bernards, R. (2008). Enabling personalized cancer medicine through analysis of gene-expression patterns. Nature, 452(7187), 564–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Zuber, M. T., & Banerdt, W. B. (2008). The Borealis basin and the origin of the martian crustal dichotomy. Nature, 453(7199), 1212–1215.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clantin, B., Delattre, A.-S., Rucktooa, P., Saint, N., Méli, A. C., Locht, C., et al. (2007). Structure of the membrane protein FhaC: a member of the Omp85-TpsB transporter superfamily. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5840), 957–961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davey, K. J. (2014). Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zia Ul Haq, M. (2016). Anthocyanins and Human Health: Biomolecular and therapeutic aspects. (M. Riaz & B. Saad, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jungck, P., Duncan, R., & Mulcahy, D. (2011). Construction of a packetC Program. In R. Duncan & D. Mulcahy (Eds.), packetC Programming (pp. 39–52). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 European Journal of Population.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 27). NASA Observatory Captures Stunning Solar Flare. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-observatory-captures-intense-solar-flare-sun/. 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. (2015). Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked (No. GAO-15-296). 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

Sutton, L. M. (2012). Factors Affecting Quality Discourse and Knowledge Construction in an Online University Course (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, September 22). ‘The Show That I Was Born to Do.’ New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vespignani 2009).
This sentence cites two references (van’t Veer and Bernards 2008; Vespignani 2009).

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

Two authors: (van’t Veer and Bernards 2008)
Three or more authors: (Clantin et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Population
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Popul.
ISSN (print)	0168-6577
ISSN (online)	1572-9885
Scope	Demography