How to format your references using the Publishing Research Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Publishing Research Quarterly. 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

1. Eberl G. Immunology: A is for immunity. Nature. 2014;508:47–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schultz TF, Kay SA. Circadian clocks in daily and seasonal control of development. Science. 2003;301:326–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Reinisch KM, Nibert ML, Harrison SC. Structure of the reovirus core at 3.6 A resolution. Nature. 2000;404:960–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fujiki R, Chikanishi T, Hashiba W, Ito H, Takada I, Roeder RG, et al. GlcNAcylation of a histone methyltransferase in retinoic-acid-induced granulopoiesis. Nature. 2009;459:455–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T. Industrial Tribology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Berkowitz L, McCarthy C, editors. Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Campbell LJ. Numerical Simulations of the Dynamics of Vortex Rossby Waves on a Beta-Plane. In: Bélair J, Frigaard IA, Kunze H, Makarov R, Melnik R, Spiteri RJ, editors. Mathematical and Computational Approaches in Advancing Modern Science and Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 35–46.

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 Publishing Research Quarterly.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Alien Star Passed Through Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-passed-less-light-year-earth/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Technology: Air Attack Warning System Cannot Process All Radar Track Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: IMTEC-91-15.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dean DO. A discrete-time multiple event process survival mixture (MEPSUM) model for investigating the order and timing of multiple non-repeatable events [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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

1. Brantley B. Strangers Arrive, and the Desert Blooms. New York Times. 2016 Dec 9;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Publishing Research Quarterly
Abbreviation	Publ. Res. Q.
ISSN (print)	1053-8801
ISSN (online)	1936-4792
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Marketing Computer Science Applications Media Technology Communication