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

Shelly, David R. 2010. “Periodic, Chaotic, and Doubled Earthquake Recurrence Intervals on the Deep San Andreas Fault.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5984): 1385–1388.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brinker, C. Jeffrey, and Paul G. Clem. 2013. “Materials Science. Quartz on Silicon.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6134): 818–819.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl, Clifford, Thomas Vanderford, and Michele Carter. 2003. “An Evolutionary Advantage of Haploidy in Large Yeast Populations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5606): 555–558.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Marino, Nicole D., Jenny Y. Zhang, Adair L. Borges, Alexander A. Sousa, Lina M. Leon, Benjamin J. Rauch, Russell T. Walton, et al. 2018. “Discovery of Widespread Type I and Type V CRISPR-Cas Inhibitors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 (6411): 240–242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alhabeeb, M. J. 2012. Mathematical Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Coluccia, Giulio. 2015. Compressed Sensing for Distributed Systems. Edited by Chiara Ravazzi and Enrico Magli. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster, Cynthia. 2015. “Spanish- and English-Speaking Hispanic Subcultural Consumption Differences.” In Proceedings of the 1988 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, edited by Kenneth D. Bahn, 18–22. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. 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, Danielle. 2016. “The Ocean Is Losing Its Breath – And Climate Change Is Making It Worse.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1977. Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information, Appendix IV. PAD-77-14A. 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

Aguirre, Billy L. 2010. “The Rise in Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse among American Adolescents.” 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

Saslow, Linda. 2006. “Grants Will Aid First-Time Home Buyers.” New York Times, October 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelly 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Shelly 2010; Brinker and Clem 2013).

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

Two authors: (Brinker and Clem 2013)
Three authors: (Zeyl, Vanderford, and Carter 2003)
4 or more authors: (Marino et al. 2018)

About the journal

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