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

Knott, Graham. 2015. “Neurodegeneration: Cold Shock Protects the Brain.” Nature 518 (7538): 177–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Duggavathi, Rajesha, and Bruce D. Murphy. 2009. “Development. Ovulation Signals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5929): 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sekiguchi, Akira, Rei Kinjo, and Masaaki Ichinohe. 2004. “A Stable Compound Containing a Silicon-Silicon Triple Bond.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5691): 1755–1757.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tiscareno, Matthew S., Joseph A. Burns, Matthew M. Hedman, Carolyn C. Porco, John W. Weiss, Luke Dones, Derek C. Richardson, and Carl D. Murray. 2006. “100-Metre-Diameter Moonlets in Saturn’s A Ring from Observations of ‘propeller’ Structures.” Nature 440 (7084): 648–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein, Arnold P. 2004. The Psychology of Group Aggression. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Renda, M. Elena, Miroslav Bursa, Andreas Holzinger, and Sami Khuri, eds. 2016. Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics: 7th International Conference, ITBAM 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9832. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Petrilli, Susan, and Augusto Ponzio. 2015. “Language as Primary Modeling and Natural Languages: A Biosemiotic Perspective.” In Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull, and Stephen J. Cowley, 47–76. Biosemiotics. 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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Watch Live As SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Launches Toward ISS.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-spacex-s-dragon-spacecraft-launches-toward-iss/.

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. 1972. Administration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the Michigan and Ohio State Departments of Education. 088953. 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

Rodriguez, Graciela. 2013. “Undocumented Students in Higher Education: A Grant Project.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. “Soundtracks Dominate the Billboard Top 10.” New York Times, January 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knott 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Knott 2015; Duggavathi and Murphy 2009).

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

Two authors: (Duggavathi and Murphy 2009)
Three authors: (Sekiguchi, Kinjo, and Ichinohe 2004)
4 or more authors: (Tiscareno 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