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

Graeber, M. B. (2010). Changing face of microglia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6005), 783–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allsop, D. J., & West, S. A. (2003). Life history: changing sex at the same relative body size. Nature, 425(6960), 783–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Roode, J. C., Lefèvre, T., & Hunter, M. D. (2013). Ecology. Self-medication in animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6129), 150–151.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

van Montfort, R. L. M., Congreve, M., Tisi, D., Carr, R., & Jhoti, H. (2003). Oxidation state of the active-site cysteine in protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Nature, 423(6941), 773–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, R. C. (2010). The Hedge Fund Book. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

O’Neill, L. A. J., & Brint, E. (Eds.). (2005). Toll-like Receptors in Inflammation. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Baba, S., Owada, M., Grew, E. S., & Shiraishi, K. (2006). Sapphirine — Orthopyroxene — Garnet Granulite from Schirmacher Hills, Central Dronning Maud Land. In D. K. Fütterer, D. Damaske, G. Kleinschmidt, H. Miller, & F. Tessensohn (Eds.), Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences (pp. 37–44). 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

Andrew, D. (2017, January 11). Why You Might Want To Think Twice About Surrendering Online Privacy For The Sake Of Convenience. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-you-might-want-to-think-twice-about-surrendering-online-privacy-for-the-sake-of-convenience/

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. (2014). Technology Transfer: Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve Initiatives (GAO-15-127). 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

Malherek, M. N. (2016). The Prevalence and Predictors of Parental Corporal Punishment in the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, September 1). Team of 7 From Finance and Law to Oversee Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Affairs. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graeber, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Allsop & West, 2003; Graeber, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Allsop & West, 2003)
Three authors: (de Roode et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (van Montfort et al., 2003)

About the journal

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

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