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

Gewin, V. (2004). Mapping opportunities. Nature, 427(6972), 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Voesenek, L. A. C. J., & Pierik, R. (2008). Plant science. Plant stress profiles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5878), 880–881.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, R.-P., Chew, K.-H., & He, S. (2013). Dynamic control of collapse in a vortex Airy beam. Scientific Reports, 3, 1406.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tian, L., Li, J., Sun, J., Ma, E., & Shan, Z.-W. (2013). Visualizing size-dependent deformation mechanism transition in Sn. Scientific Reports, 3, 2113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berk, J. (2010). Cost Reduction and Optimization for Manufacturing and Industrial Companies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Taourel, P. (Ed.). (2011). CT of the Acute Abdomen. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fox, P. F., Uniacke-Lowe, T., McSweeney, P. L. H., & O’Mahony, J. A. (2015). Milk Proteins. In T. Uniacke-Lowe, P. L. H. McSweeney, & J. A. O’Mahony (Eds.), Dairy Chemistry and Biochemistry (pp. 145–239). 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 Relations Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 6). Why Some Geckos Don’t Stick. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-some-geckos-dont-stick/

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. (1998). Head Start: Challenges Faced in Demonstrating Program Results and Responding to Societal Changes (T-HEHS-98-183). 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

Morales, D. (2017). Understanding How Perceptions of School Leadership and School Community Relationships Affected Veteran Teachers’ Decisions to Remain Working in Urban Elementary Schools [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Blumenthal, R., & Greenhouse, L. (2007, September 29). Texas Planning New Execution Despite Ruling. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2004; Voesenek & Pierik, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Voesenek & Pierik, 2008)
Three authors: (Chen et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Tian et al., 2013)

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