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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of European Public Policy (RJPP). 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 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

McClung, C. R. (2009) ‘Circadian rhythms. Linking the loops’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 323(5920): 1440–1441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaquero, L. M. and Cebrian, M. (2013) ‘The rich club phenomenon in the classroom’, Scientific reports 3: 1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, R., Gintis, H. and Bowles, S. (2010) ‘Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 328(5978): 617–620.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Hunte, C. et al. (2005) ‘Structure of a Na+/H+ antiporter and insights into mechanism of action and regulation by pH’, Nature 435(7046): 1197–1202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ni, Z., Pacoret, C., Benosman, R. and Régnier, S. (2014) Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Herrmann, H. C. (ed.) (2005) Interventional Cardiology: Percutaneous Noncoronary Intervention, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Gruen, A., Broadley, M. R., Buchner, P. and Hawkesford, M. J. (2014) ‘Efficient Mineral Nutrition: Genetic Improvement of Phosphate Uptake and Use Efficiency in Crops’, in M. J. Hawkesford, S. Kopriva, and L. J. De Kok (eds). Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 93–132.

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 Journal of European Public Policy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015) Watch An Exoplanet Orbit An Alien Star, 21 September 2015, IFLScience, available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/video-planet-around-another-star/ (accessed 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 (1983) GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 2, 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

Davis, T. E. (2010) Sedimentation solutions for the Port of Gulfport, MS. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Chira, S. (2017) ‘Women Interrupted’, New York Times 15 June: B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McClung 2009).
This sentence cites two references (McClung 2009; Vaquero and Cebrian 2013).

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

Two authors: (Vaquero and Cebrian 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hunte et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of European Public Policy
Abbreviation	J. Eur. Public Policy
ISSN (print)	1350-1763
ISSN (online)	1466-4429
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Public Administration