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

Urnov, F. D. (2014) ‘Biological techniques: Edit the genome to understand it’, Nature 513(7516): 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths, J. and Ruths, D. (2014) ‘Control profiles of complex networks’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 343(6177): 1373–1376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burnham, D., Kitamura, C. and Vollmer-Conna, U. (2002) ‘What’s new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5572): 1435.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Bradshaw, G. A., Schore, A. N., Brown, J. L., Poole, J. H. and Moss, C. J. (2005) ‘Elephant breakdown’, Nature 433(7028): 807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tung, C.-H., Sheng, G. T. T. and Lu, C.-Y. (2005) ULSI Semiconductor Technology Atlas, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ruitenberg, C. W. and Phillips, D. C. (eds) (2012) Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Moghaddam, B. and Pehrson, A. L. (2010) ‘Disinhibition of Prefrontal Cortex Neurons in Schizophrenia’, in W. F. Gattaz and G. Busatto (eds). Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 99–111.

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

Davis, J. (2015) Scientists Genetically Engineer Yeast To Produce Morphine-Like Painkiller, 15 August 2015, IFLScience, available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-genetically-engineer-yeast-produce-morphine-painkiller/ (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 (1974) Administration of the Office of Education’s Student Financial Aid Program, 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

Hao, S. (2013) An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface. Doctoral dissertation. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Koblin, J. (2017) ‘Political Bite Gives Colbert Ratings Edge Over Fallon’, New York Times 7 February: B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Urnov 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ruths and Ruths 2014; Urnov 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ruths and Ruths 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bradshaw 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