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

Dabby, D. S. (2008). Music theory. Creating musical variation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 62–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ticozzi, F., & Viola, L. (2014). Quantum resources for purification and cooling: fundamental limits and opportunities. Scientific reports, 4, 5192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karsai, M., Perra, N., & Vespignani, A. (2014). Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties. Scientific reports, 4, 4001.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ideta, A., Aoyagi, Y., Tsuchiya, K., Kamijima, T., Nishimiya, Y., & Tsuda, S. (2013). A simple medium enables bovine embryos to be held for seven days at 4°C. Scientific reports, 3, 1173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thériault, M., & Rosiers, F. D. (2011). Modeling Urban Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bishop, M., Miloslavskaya, N., & Theocharidou, M. (Eds.). (2015). Information Security Education Across the Curriculum: 9th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference, WISE 9, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 453). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Falcone, Y., Fernandez, J.-C., & Mounier, L. (2009). Runtime Verification of Safety-Progress Properties. In S. Bensalem & D. A. Peled (Eds.), Runtime Verification: 9th International Workshop, RV 2009, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009. Selected Papers (pp. 40–59). 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, May 19). Panda Guts Have Failed To Evolve With Bamboo Diet. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/panda-guts-have-failed-evolve-bamboo-diet/. 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. (2011). Information Security: State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain (No. GAO-11-149). 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

Arendt, K. R. (2015). Symbiosis establishment and ecological effects of endohyphal bacteria on foliar fungi (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, March 2). Awash in an Olympics Afterglow, but Still Remote. New York Times, p. TR7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dabby 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dabby 2008; Ticozzi and Viola 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ticozzi and Viola 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ideta et al. 2013)

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