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

Vinge, J. D. (2000). Murphy’s cat. Nature, 408(6813), 649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoon, T. P., & Jacobsen, E. N. (2003). Privileged chiral catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5613), 1691–1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acar, M., Becskei, A., & van Oudenaarden, A. (2005). Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature, 435(7039), 228–232.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, Y.-K. R., Hollowell, A. E., Zhang, C., & Guo, L. J. (2013). Angle-insensitive structural colours based on metallic nanocavities and coloured pixels beyond the diffraction limit. Scientific reports, 3, 1194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coombs, W. T., & Holladay, S. J. (2011). Managing Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Salit, M. S., Jawaid, M., Yusoff, N. B., & Hoque, M. E. (Eds.). (2015). Manufacturing of Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Guo, T., Liu, F., Wu, C., Ren, Y., & Wang, W. (2014). On $(k, n) ( k , n ) Visual Cryptography Scheme with t$ t Essential Parties. In C. Padró (Ed.), Information Theoretic Security: 7th International Conference, ICITS 2013, Singapore, November 28-30, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 56–68). 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 European Journal of Population.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, May 30). Dream Disorders Could Be Early Indicator Of Future Brain Disease. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dream-disorders-could-be-early-indicator-of-future-brain-disease/. 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. (1992). Mass Transit Grants: Risk of Misspent and Ineffectively Used Funds in FTA’s Chicago Region (No. RCED-92-53). 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

Clarke, P. N. (2008). Program evaluation: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of an alternative education program in a rural county of a mid-Atlantic U.S. state (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, October 20). Was That a Presidential Debate or a Pitch for an Edgy Trump Channel? New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vinge 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Vinge 2000; Yoon and Jacobsen 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yoon and Jacobsen 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2013)

About the journal

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