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

Giblin, S. (2007). Applied physics. One electron makes current flow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5828), 1130–1131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gamerdinger, M., & Deuerling, E. (2014). Biochemistry. Trigger factor flexibility. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6184), 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weston, C. R., Lambright, D. G., & Davis, R. J. (2002). Signal transduction. MAP kinase signaling specificity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2345–2347.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Schultze, M., Fiess, M., Karpowicz, N., Gagnon, J., Korbman, M., Hofstetter, M., Neppl, S., Cavalieri, A. L., Komninos, Y., Mercouris, T., Nicolaides, C. A., Pazourek, R., Nagele, S., Feist, J., Burgdörfer, J., Azzeer, A. M., Ernstorfer, R., Kienberger, R., Kleineberg, U., … Yakovlev, V. S. (2010). Delay in photoemission. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1658–1662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R. (2012). Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Lytras, M. D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Damiani, E., Avison, D., Naeve, A., & Horner, D. G. (Eds.). (2009). Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 49). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Werle, M., & Takeuchi, H. (2009). Strategies to Overcome the Enzymatic Barrier. In A. Bernkop-Schnürch (Ed.), Oral Delivery of Macromolecular Drugs: Barriers, Strategies and Future Trends (pp. 65–83). Springer US.

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

Fang, J. (2015, July 31). New Species Of Wolf Discovered In Africa. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/african-golden-jackals-are-actually-wolves/

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. (1987). Education Information: Changes in Funds and Priorities Have Affected Production and Quality (PEMD-88-4). 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

Cao, Q. (2013). East Asian backpacker tourists’ motivations for participating in backpacking [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

Hubbard, B. (2017, July 2). 21 Killed in Series of Car Bomb Blasts in Syria’s Capital. New York Times, A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giblin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gamerdinger & Deuerling, 2014; Giblin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gamerdinger & Deuerling, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Schultze et al., 2010)

About the journal

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