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

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

Brooks, R. (2000). Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature, 406(6791), 67–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conrad, C. P., & Lithgow-Bertelloni, C. (2002). How mantle slabs drive plate tectonics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 207–209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke, R. C., Poo, M.-M., & Dan, Y. (2005). Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature, 434(7030), 221–225.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bakal, C., Aach, J., Church, G., & Perrimon, N. (2007). Quantitative morphological signatures define local signaling networks regulating cell morphology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5832), 1753–1756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin, R. (2012). Reading Victorian Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vohr, H.-W. (Ed.). (2016). Encyclopedia of Immunotoxicology (2nd ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anaya, J., Chalopin, J., Czyzowicz, J., Labourel, A., Pelc, A., & Vaxès, Y. (2012). Collecting Information by Power-Aware Mobile Agents. In M. K. Aguilera (Ed.), Distributed Computing: 26th International Symposium, DISC 2012, Salvador, Brazil, October 16-18, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 46–60). 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 Public Relations Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, August 4). Astronomers Measure Oxygen In A Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1988). Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Acquisition--Fair, Reasonable, Supported (IMTEC-88-26). 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

Bartaula, B. (2017). Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2010, October 8). Graphic Evidence Of Comics Fanatics. New York Times, C25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brooks, 2000; Conrad & Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Conrad & Lithgow-Bertelloni, 2002)
Three authors: (Froemke et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Bakal et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Public Relations Review
Abbreviation	Public Relat. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0363-8111
Scope	Marketing Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Communication