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

Zala, K. (2007) ‘Careers in behavioral science. Public opinion research: measuring happiness’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 316(5827): 1060–1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

Csete, M. E. and Doyle, J. C. (2002) ‘Reverse engineering of biological complexity’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5560): 1664–1669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnold, K. E., Owens, I. P. F. and Marshall, N. J. (2002) ‘Fluorescent signaling in parrots’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5552): 92.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Frampton, J. P. et al. (2014) ‘Aqueous two-phase system patterning of detection antibody solutions for cross-reaction-free multiplex ELISA’, Scientific reports 4: 4878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, S. (2011) How to Know, Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Mazliak, L. (2009) Mathematicians at war: Volterra and his French colleagues in World War I, R. Tazzioli (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobson, J. (2007) ‘Responsibility Modelling: Basic Concepts’, in G. Dewsbury and J. Dobson (eds). Responsibility and Dependable Systems. London: Springer, pp. 91–114.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016) Can Money Buy You Happiness? It’s Complicated, 11 October 2016, IFLScience, available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/can-money-buy-you-happiness-its-complicated/ (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 (1991) Space Data: NASA’s Future Data Volumes Create Formidable Challenges, 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

Torres-Partida, A. (2014) Bridging the gap between faith based leaders and mental health professionals. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: 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

Kelly, M. (1992) ‘THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Republicans Re-Think “Family Values” Focus’, New York Times 27 August: A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zala 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Csete and Doyle 2002; Zala 2007).

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

Two authors: (Csete and Doyle 2002)
Three or more authors: (Frampton et al. 2014)

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