How to format your references using the Policy and Society citation style

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

Jerolmack, D. J. (2013). Planetary science. Pebbles on Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, J. N., & Simmons, S. F. (2013). Geophysics. More power from below. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 933–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dietz, T., Ostrom, E., & Stern, P. C. (2003). The struggle to govern the commons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1907–1912.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Simon, A. F., Shih, C., Mack, A., & Benzer, S. (2003). Steroid control of longevity in Drosophila melanogaster. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5611), 1407–1410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J. R. (2013). Detecting Fraud in Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sawyer, S. W., & Stewart, I. (Eds.). (2016). In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France since 1950. Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur, R., & Samuels, W. B. (2011). Drinking Water Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection. In R. M. Clark, S. Hakim, & A. Ostfeld (Eds.), Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection (pp. 65–85). 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 Policy and Society.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, December 2). Award-Winning Chemist Works For Free After Funding Cutbacks. IFLScience; 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. (1998). Department of Education: Information Needs Are at the Core of Management Challenges Facing the Department (T-HEHS-98-124). 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

Dulick, K. C. (2010). Self-neglect among the elderly: Knowledge and perceptions of MSW students [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

Wagner, J. (2017, July 8). Twins Deal Sends Colon To Minors. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jerolmack, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jerolmack, 2013; Moore & Simmons, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Moore & Simmons, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Simon et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Policy and Society
Abbreviation	Policy Soc.
ISSN (print)	1449-4035
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Public Administration