How to format your references using the Policy Sciences citation style

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

Kontos, T. (2011). Quantum physics: single electrons take the bus. Nature, 477(7365), 414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fortey, R., & Chatterton, B. (2003). A Devonian trilobite with an eyeshade. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Q., Geng, Y., & Sicinski, P. (2001). Specific protection against breast cancers by cyclin D1 ablation. Nature, 411(6841), 1017–1021.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, X., Cheng, Y.-N., Wang, X.-L., & Chang, C.-H. (2002). An unusual oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from China. Nature, 419(6904), 291–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malhotra, G. (2010). Chemical Process Simplification. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cleophas, T. J. (2014). Machine Learning in Medicine - Cookbook Two. (A. H. Zwinderman, Ed.) (Vol. 49). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wackernagel, W., Anand-Apte, B., & Singh, A. D. (2014). Cancer Angiogenesis. In A. D. Singh & B. Damato (Eds.), Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology: Basic Principles and Diagnostic Techniques (pp. 35–54). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, January 18). Check Out This “Lava Hose” Madly Gushing Out Of Hawaii. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/lava-hose-madly-gushing-hawaii/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). ADP Modernization: Army Plans To Improve Budget Disclosure for Its Standard Depot System (No. IMTEC-88-30). 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

Sokolov, C. K. (2017). Teacher Engagement In Grades 4-8 (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Barry, E. (2010, March 30). Attacks Revive Russian Concern That Guerrilla Warfare Will Spread. New York Times, p. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kontos 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fortey and Chatterton 2003; Kontos 2011).

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

Two authors: (Fortey and Chatterton 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Policy Sciences
Abbreviation	Policy Sci.
ISSN (print)	0032-2687
ISSN (online)	1573-0891
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law General Social Sciences Development Sociology and Political Science Public Administration