How to format your references using the Public Organization Review citation style

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

Goodman, S. (2003). Europe attempts to promote women scientists. Nature, 426(6963), 210–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nunes, F., & Norris, R. D. (2006). Abrupt reversal in ocean overturning during the Palaeocene/Eocene warm period. Nature, 439(7072), 60–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong, K. M., Suchard, M. A., & Huelsenbeck, J. P. (2008). Alignment uncertainty and genomic analysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5862), 473–476.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hill, M. T., Dorren, H. J. S., De Vries, T., Leijtens, X. J. M., Den Besten, J. H., Smalbrugge, B., et al. (2004). A fast low-power optical memory based on coupled micro-ring lasers. Nature, 432(7014), 206–209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sewell, G. (2005). The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ben-Canaan, D., Grüner, F., & Prodöhl, I. (Eds.). (2014). Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Emsley, J. G., & Macklis, J. D. (2006). Responses of the Adult SVZ to Neuronal Death and Injury. In S. W. Levison (Ed.), Mammalian Subventricular Zones: Their Roles in Brain Development, Cell Replacement and Disease (pp. 159–184). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Organization Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 27). Watch The Antares Rocket Launch Tonight Live. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/millions-will-be-able-view-tonight-s-antares-rocket-launch/. 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. (1992). Voice of America: Management Actions Needed to Adjust to a Changing Environment (No. NSIAD-92-150). 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

Khatib, E. (2010). A phenomenological study on the potential impact of implementing information systems in midsize corporations (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Qiu, L. (2017, March 16). In Prime Time, a Rerun of the President’s Favorite Falsehoods. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2003; Nunes and Norris 2006).

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

Two authors: (Nunes and Norris 2006)
Three or more authors: (Hill et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Organization Review
Abbreviation	Public Organ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1566-7170
ISSN (online)	1573-7098
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Law