How to format your references using the Research Policy citation style

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

Ibáñez Insa, J., 2013. Geochemistry. Reformulating table salt under pressure. Science 342, 1459–1460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Longhi, S., Della Valle, G., 2013. Floquet bound states in the continuum. Sci. Rep. 3, 2219.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charpinet, S., Fontaine, G., Brassard, P., 2009. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature 461, 501–503.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, J.-J., Li, C., Zhang, B.-Y., Cressman, R., Tao, Y., 2014. The role of institutional incentives and the exemplar in promoting cooperation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aksamija, A., 2016. Integrating Innovation in Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Visgilio, G.R., Whitelaw, D.M. (Eds.), 2007. Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Gribovskaya, N., Virbitskaite, I., 2007. A Categorical Observation of Timed Testing Equivalence, in: Malyshkin, V. (Ed.), Parallel Computing Technologies: 9th International Conference, PaCT 2007, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 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 Research Policy.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Objects Chucked Down A 300-Year-Old Toilet Give A Timeline Of American History [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/objects-chucked-down-a-300yearold-toilet-give-a-timeline-of-american-history/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2005. Aviation Security: Measures for Testing the Impact of Using Commercial Data for the Secure Flight Program (No. GAO-05-324). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Irving, A.V., 2017. Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Williams, J., 2017. Stranger Than Reality? New York Times BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ibáñez Insa, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ibáñez Insa, 2013; Longhi and Della Valle, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Longhi and Della Valle, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Policy
Abbreviation	Res. Policy
ISSN (print)	0048-7333
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research