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

Dolgin, E. (2013). Cancer vaccines: Material breach. Nature, 504(7480), S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwalb, N. K., & Temps, F. (2008). Base sequence and higher-order structure induce the complex excited-state dynamics in DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 243–245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Geisler, J. H., Colbert, M. W., & Carew, J. L. (2014). A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation. Nature, 508(7496), 383–386.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hafez, H. A., Kovalev, S., Deinert, J.-C., Mics, Z., Green, B., Awari, N., et al. (2018). Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions. Nature, 561(7724), 507–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Delgado, R. L.-C., & Araki, M. (2006). Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Preneel, B., & Tavares, S. (Eds.). (2006). Selected Areas in Cryptography: 12th International Workshop, SAC 2005, Kingston, ON, Canada, August 11-12, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3897). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gomille, C. (2016). The Novelist’s Artistic Freedom v. His Protagonist’s Rights of Personality: A Comparison Between German and U.S.-American Law. In M. Fenwick & S. Wrbka (Eds.), Flexibility in Modern Business Law: A Comparative Assessment (pp. 69–87). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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

Hamilton, K. (2015, January 31). 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Penises. 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. (1990). Defaulted Student Loans: Analysis of Defaulted Borrowers at Schools Accredited by Seven Agencies (No. HRD-90-178FS). 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

Clément, V. (2017). From Adaptation to Transformation: A Resilience Perspective on Organizational Responses to Ecological Adversity (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K. (2002, June 16). Reminiscing About a Woman With Quirks as Well as Causes. New York Times, p. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin 2013; Schwalb and Temps 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schwalb and Temps 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hafez et al. 2018)

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