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

Cuomo, S. (2004). Beyond the ivory tower. The sinews of war: ancient catapults. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 771–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Labouriau, R., & Amorim, A. (2008). Comment on “An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1634; author reply 1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chadderton, P., Margrie, T. W., & Häusser, M. (2004). Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing. Nature, 428(6985), 856–860.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vigny, C., Socquet, A., Peyrat, S., Ruegg, J.-C., Métois, M., Madariaga, R., Morvan, S., Lancieri, M., Lacassin, R., Campos, J., Carrizo, D., Bejar-Pizarro, M., Barrientos, S., Armijo, R., Aranda, C., Valderas-Bermejo, M.-C., Ortega, I., Bondoux, F., Baize, S., … Kendrick, E. (2011). The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule megathrust earthquake of Central Chile, monitored by GPS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6036), 1417–1421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, J., & Tao, D. (2013). Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Stanković, S. (2012). Multimedia Signals and Systems (I. Orović & E. Sejdić, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Goddard, J. (2008). Tick-Borne Diseases. In J. Goddard (Ed.), Infectious Diseases and Arthropods (pp. 81–129). Humana Press.

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

Andrew, D. (2016, November 16). How The 18th-Century Steam Engine Helped Physicists Make A Quantum Breakthrough. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-the-18th-century-steam-engine-helped-physicists-make-a-quantum-breakthrough/

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. (1991). Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Transition of Communications System to Digital Technology (IMTEC-91-77FS). 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

Hawkins, S. H. (2017). Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Branch, J. (2016, October 7). Boogaard’s Pill Dealer Receives Probation. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cuomo, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cuomo, 2004; Labouriau & Amorim, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Labouriau & Amorim, 2008)
Three authors: (Chadderton et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Vigny et al., 2011)

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

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