How to format your references using the Public Choice citation style

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

Harnett, M. M. (2006). Immunology. B cells spread and gather. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5774), 709–710.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ichinose, G., & Sayama, H. (2014). Evolution of fairness in the not quite ultimatum game. Scientific reports, 4, 5104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Unal, E., Kinde, B., & Amon, A. (2011). Gametogenesis eliminates age-induced cellular damage and resets life span in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6037), 1554–1557.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Glover, J. D., Reganold, J. P., Bell, L. W., Borevitz, J., Brummer, E. C., Buckler, E. S., et al. (2010). Agriculture. Increased food and ecosystem security via perennial grains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1638–1639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cliteur, P. (2010). The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gasparri, G., Palestini, N., & Camandona, M. (Eds.). (2016). Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Updates. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Macleod, A. M. (2010). Free Speech, Equal Opportunity, and Justice. In D. Golash (Ed.), Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World (pp. 57–71). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Public Choice.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 31). Oldest Man In History Claims To Be 145 But Wants To Die. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1978). Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Management (No. 094703). 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

Hambarsoomian, H. (2017). Classification of Placental Chorionic Surface Vasculature Network Features Using Machine Learning Techniques (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2012, March 7). Suffolk Cites Emergency In Finances. New York Times, p. A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harnett 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Harnett 2006; Ichinose and Sayama 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ichinose and Sayama 2014)
Three or more authors: (Glover et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Choice
Abbreviation	Public Choice
ISSN (print)	0048-5829
ISSN (online)	1573-7101
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science