How to format your references using the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Goldston, D. (2008) A debatable proposition, Nature, 451(7179), 621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, M. and Wanke, M.C. (2007) Applied physics. Searching for a solid-state terahertz technology, Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 64–65.

A journal article with 3 authors

King, G., Pan, J. and Roberts, M.E. (2014) Political science. Reverse-engineering censorship in China: randomized experimentation and participant observation, Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 1251722.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scott, S.H., Gribble, P.L., Graham, K.M., et al (2001) Dissociation between hand motion and population vectors from neural activity in motor cortex, Nature, 413(6852), 161–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grotewold, E., Chappell, J. and Kellogg, E.A. (2015) Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lin, S. and Huang, X. (eds.) (2011) Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education: International Conference, CSEE 2011, Wuhan, China, August 21-22, 2011. Proceedings, Part IV. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmitz, R.A., Daniel, R., Deppenmeier, U., et al (2006) “The Anaerobic Way of Life.”, in Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., et al (eds.), The Prokaryotes: Volume 2: Ecophysiology and Biochemistry, New York, NY: Springer. pp 86–101.

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 Public Finance and Public Choice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) The Pope’s Encyclical On Climate Change – Will Evangelicals Care?, IFLScience.

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 (1988) Command and Control: Upgrades Allow Deferral of $500 Million Computer Acquisition. IMTEC-88-10, 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

Clovis, D.J. (2010) The thayer valve and its effect on a generation and beyond, 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

Saslow, L. (2007) A Law School Graduates From Junior High, New York Times, 21 January, p LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Wanke, 2007; Goldston, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Wanke, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Scott et al, 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
ISSN (print)	2515-6918
ISSN (online)	2515-6926
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