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

Sohn, E. (2015). Israel: Research without prejudice. Nature, 525(7570), S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reynolds, T. B., & Fink, G. R. (2001). Bakers’ yeast, a model for fungal biofilm formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5505), 878–881.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Ewing, R. C., & Becker, U. (2014). Average structure and local configuration of excess oxygen in UO(2+x). Scientific Reports, 4, 4216.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clarke, G., Collins, R. A., Leavitt, B. R., Andrews, D. F., Hayden, M. R., Lumsden, C. J., & McInnes, R. R. (2000). A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations. Nature, 406(6792), 195–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, W. M. (2012). Fusion Plasma Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Cash, B. D. (Ed.). (2013). Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography: A Comprehensive Overview. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, V., & Reinartz, W. (2012). Customer Analytics Part I. In W. Reinartz (Ed.), Customer Relationship Management: Concept, Strategy, and Tools (pp. 89–109). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, April 4). New DNA Technique Means Pointing The Finger At The Right Identical Twin Just Got Easier. 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. (2008). Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs (GAO-08-664T). 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

Garcia, M. J. (2009). Teacher knowledge of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and effective classroom interventions [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

Billard, M. (2010, May 20). British Invasion, Only This Time It’s in Retail. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Reynolds & Fink, 2001; Sohn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Reynolds & Fink, 2001)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Clarke et al., 2000)

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

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