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

Blencowe, M. (2007). Applied physics. How to strum a nanobar. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature, 444(7121), 918–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaw, S. L., Kamyar, R., & Ehrhardt, D. W. (2003). Sustained microtubule treadmilling in Arabidopsis cortical arrays. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1715–1718.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reich, P. B., Tjoelker, M. G., Machado, J.-L., & Oleksyn, J. (2006). Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants. Nature, 439(7075), 457–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Will, H. (2011). »Sei naiv und mach’ ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Okada, A., Shum, S. B., & Sherborne, T. (Eds.). (2008). Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Corpas, F. J., Palma, J. M., del Río, L. A., & Barroso, J. B. (2016). Nitric Oxide Emission and Uptake from Higher Plants. In L. Lamattina & C. García-Mata (Eds.), Gasotransmitters in Plants: The Rise of a New Paradigm in Cell Signaling (pp. 79–93). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2017, March 30). How Our Species Got Smarter: Through A Rush Of Blood To The Head. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-our-species-got-smarter-through-a-rush-of-blood-to-the-head/. 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. (2005). Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust (No. GAO-05-155). 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

Bhandari, S. (2017). The Role of System of Systems in Additive Manufacturing (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Shear, M. D., & Yee, V. (2017, June 16). ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Their Long-Term Fate Is Unclear. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blencowe 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Blencowe 2007; Foster and Vance 2006).

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

Two authors: (Foster and Vance 2006)
Three or more authors: (Reich et al. 2006)

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