How to format your references using the Population Research and Policy Review citation style

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

Gordon, D. M. (2007). Control without hierarchy. Nature, 446(7132), 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gariano, R. F., & Gardner, T. W. (2005). Retinal angiogenesis in development and disease. Nature, 438(7070), 960–966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian, B. C., Clarkson, J. R., & Zwier, T. S. (2004). Direct measurement of energy thresholds to conformational isomerization in tryptamine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1169–1173.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bebenek, K., Tissier, A., Frank, E. G., McDonald, J. P., Prasad, R., Wilson, S. H., et al. (2001). 5’-Deoxyribose phosphate lyase activity of human DNA polymerase iota in vitro. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5511), 2156–2159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molloy, M., & Larner, W. (2013). Fashioning Globalisation. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Bebis, G., Boyle, R., Parvin, B., Koracin, D., Remagnino, P., Nefian, A., et al. (Eds.). (2006). Advances in Visual Computing: Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006 Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 6-8, 2006. Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 4292). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Danese, M., Lazzari, M., & Murgante, B. (2009). Integrated Geological, Geomorphological and Geostatistical Analysis to Study Macroseismic Effects of 1980 Irpinian Earthquake in Urban Areas (Southern Italy). In O. Gervasi, D. Taniar, B. Murgante, A. Laganà, Y. Mun, & M. L. Gavrilova (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009: International Conference, Seoul, Korea, June 29-July 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 50–65). 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 Population Research and Policy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 9). This Is What Climate Change Deniers Sound Like To Normal People. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-climate-change-deniers-sound-normal-people/. 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. (1995). Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Long-Term Viability (No. T-RCED-95-123). 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

Trahan, M. W. (2015). Large-scale 20th Century Warming Identified in the East Siberian Arctic Using Tree-ring Carbon Isotope Records (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2011, December 20). Cuts for the Already Retired. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gordon 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gariano and Gardner 2005; Gordon 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gariano and Gardner 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bebenek et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Population Research and Policy Review
Abbreviation	Popul. Res. Policy Rev.
ISSN (print)	0167-5923
ISSN (online)	1573-7829
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Demography