How to format your references using the Policy Studies citation style

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

Lawler, A. 2000. “ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Silent No Longer: ‘Model Minority’ Mobilizes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5494): 1072–1077.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola, and Matthias Schündeln. 2015. “Political Economy. On the Endogeneity of Political Preferences: Evidence from Individual Experience with Democracy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347 (6226): 1145–1148.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanagisawa, Shuichi, Sang-Dong Yoo, and Jen Sheen. 2003. “Differential Regulation of EIN3 Stability by Glucose and Ethylene Signalling in Plants.” Nature 425 (6957): 521–525.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Buhl, J., D. J. T. Sumpter, I. D. Couzin, J. J. Hale, E. Despland, E. R. Miller, and S. J. Simpson. 2006. “From Disorder to Order in Marching Locusts.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5778): 1402–1406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewe, Philip J., Michael P. O’Driscoll, and Cary L. Cooper. 2010. Coping with Work Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dincer, Ibrahim, C. Ozgur Colpan, Onder Kizilkan, and M. Akif Ezan, eds. 2015. Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 1: Analysis and Modeling. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Puzio, Leszek, and James F. Peters. 2013. “Nearness of Subtly Different Digital Images.” In Transactions on Rough Sets XVI, edited by James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron, Sheela Ramanna, Zbigniew Suraj, and Xin Wang, 73–82. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Undercover Investigation Reveals The Horrific Trade In Baby Chimpanzees.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/undercover-investigation-reveals-the-horrific-trade-in-baby-chimpanzees/.

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. 2003. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. GAO-03-361R. 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

Goetz, Suzanne Barnum. 2014. “Perceptions toward a Restraint-Free Practice: A Case Study.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Vecsey, George. 2010. “For Knicks’ Lee, a Grandfather, Mentor and Pal.” New York Times, January 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Fuchs-Schündeln and Schündeln 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fuchs-Schündeln and Schündeln 2015)
Three authors: (Yanagisawa, Yoo, and Sheen 2003)
4 or more authors: (Buhl et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Policy Studies
ISSN (print)	0144-2872
ISSN (online)	1470-1006
Scope	Political Science and International Relations