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

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

Goode, J. (2012). Viticulture: Fruity with a hint of drought. Nature, 492(7429), 351–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valadkhan, S., & Manley, J. L. (2001). Splicing-related catalysis by protein-free snRNAs. Nature, 413(6857), 701–707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raviv, U., Laurat, P., & Klein, J. (2001). Fluidity of water confined to subnanometre films. Nature, 413(6851), 51–54.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rubio-Martinez, M., Batten, M. P., Polyzos, A., Carey, K.-C., Mardel, J. I., Lim, K.-S., & Hill, M. R. (2014). Versatile, high quality and scalable continuous flow production of metal-organic frameworks. Scientific Reports, 4, 5443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godwin, W. (2013). International Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Polychroniadis, E. K., Oral, A. Y., & Ozer, M. (Eds.). (2014). International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress: Proceedings of InterM, Antalya, Turkey, October 10–13, 2013 (Vol. 154). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fukuda, H. (2012). Peptides Regulating Plant Vascular Development. In H. R. Irving & C. Gehring (Eds.), Plant Signaling Peptides (pp. 59–75). Springer.

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 Policy Modeling.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 16). Beauty Of The Cosmos Revealed In Stunning Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2016 Images. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/beauty-of-the-cosmos-revealed-in-stunning-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2016-images/

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. (2005). Aviation Safety: FAA Management Practices for Technical Training Mostly Effective; Further Actions Could Enhance Results (GAO-05-728). 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

Kay, V. L. (2009). A single mother and child welfare: A personal narrative [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Crow, K. (2002, March 17). “Something To Hang Onto”: A New Calling Making Flags. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goode, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Goode, 2012; Valadkhan & Manley, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Valadkhan & Manley, 2001)
Three authors: (Raviv et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Rubio-Martinez et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Policy Modeling
Abbreviation	J. Policy Model.
ISSN (print)	0161-8938
Scope	Economics and Econometrics