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. Lawler A. ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Harbinger of a Litigious Future? Science. 2000;290:1076.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fernández-Martínez LT, Bibb MJ. Use of the meganuclease I-SceI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to select for gene deletions in actinomycetes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7100.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sweeney KE, Roering JJ, Ellis C. GEOMORPHOLOGY. Experimental evidence for hillslope control of landscape scale. Science. 2015;349:51–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mezzacapo A, Las Heras U, Pedernales JS, DiCarlo L, Solano E, Lamata L. Digital quantum Rabi and Dicke models in superconducting circuits. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Suárez A. Analysis and Design of Autonomous Microwave Circuits. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. de Franchis R, Dell’Era A, editors. Variceal Hemorrhage. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Oku K, Tung TS, Hattori F. Collaborative Filtering for Predicting Users’ Potential Preferences. In: König A, Dengel A, Hinkelmann K, Kise K, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 44–52.

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. Fang J. Oldest Human Poop Tells Us What Neanderthals Ate. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Progress on the Electronic Filing System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-88-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Agbi ES. Shadow economy and the related issues of tax evasion: A comparative analysis among Canadian workers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2010.

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. Gordon MR, Schmitt E. U.S. Sends Civilians to Stabilize Recaptured Syrian Areas. New York Times. 2017 Jun 23;A6.

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