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

Bohannon, J. (2010). The Gonzo Scientist. Galileo in Senegal. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5976), 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clementz, M. T., & Sewall, J. O. (2011). Latitudinal gradients in greenhouse seawater δ(18) O: evidence from Eocene sirenian tooth enamel. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6028), 455–458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang, Y., Wu, D., & Fu, R. (2013). Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Scientific reports, 3, 1119.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnson, W. E., Eizirik, E., Pecon-Slattery, J., Murphy, W. J., Antunes, A., Teeling, E., & O’Brien, S. J. (2006). The late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: a genetic assessment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5757), 73–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov, V. O. (2016). Trustworthy Cloud Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Melin, P., & Castillo, O. (Eds.). (2013). Soft Computing Applications in Optimization, Control, and Recognition (Vol. 294). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jayatissa, L. P., Kodikara, K. A. S., Dissanayaka, N. P., & Satyanarayana, B. (2016). Post-Tsunami Assessment of Coastal Vegetation, with the View to Protect Coastal Areas from Ocean Surges in Sri Lanka. In V. Santiago-Fandiño, H. Tanaka, & M. Spiske (Eds.), Tsunamis and Earthquakes in Coastal Environments: Significance and Restoration (pp. 47–64). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, July 1). Patent or No Patent, Silver Oxide Cannot Cure AIDS. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/patent-or-no-patent-silver-oxide-cannot-cure-aids/. 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. (2006). Weather Forecasting: National Weather Service Is Planning to Improve Service and Gain Efficiency, but Impacts of Potential Changes Are Not Yet Known (No. GAO-06-792). 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

Chung, T. Y.-Y. (2010). Pulse designs on TR-MAS UWB (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, S. (2003, November 1). Op-Art. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2010; Clementz and Sewall 2011).

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

Two authors: (Clementz and Sewall 2011)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2006)

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