How to format your references using the The Leadership Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Leadership 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	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

Brown, D. (2012). Mutant flu - the view from the newsroom. Nature, 485(7396), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCormick, C., & Ganem, D. (2005). The kaposin B protein of KSHV activates the p38/MK2 pathway and stabilizes cytokine mRNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5710), 739–741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matter, N., Herrlich, P., & König, H. (2002). Signal-dependent regulation of splicing via phosphorylation of Sam68. Nature, 420(6916), 691–695.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ip, S. C. Y., Rass, U., Blanco, M. G., Flynn, H. R., Skehel, J. M., & West, S. C. (2008). Identification of Holliday junction resolvases from humans and yeast. Nature, 456(7220), 357–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky, A. (2010). System Design for Telecommunication Gateways. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Iosifidis, P. (2016). Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond (M. Wheeler, Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Song, Y. (2016). Function of Membrane-Associated Proteoglycans in the Regulation of Satellite Cell Growth. In J. White & G. Smythe (Eds.), Growth Factors and Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle Development, Growth, Regeneration and Disease (pp. 61–95). 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 The Leadership Quarterly.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 13). Scientists Break Gene-Editing Record To Create Animal Organs For Human Transplantation. 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. (2013). District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in Administration and Oversight (GAO-13-805). 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

Tercero, N. (2010). Characterization and application of morpholino monolayers in nucleic acid diagnostics [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Gorman, J. (2017, July 17). Nature’s Escape Artists Build Living Towers. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brown, 2012; McCormick & Ganem, 2005).

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

Two authors: (McCormick & Ganem, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ip et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Leadership Quarterly
Abbreviation	Leadersh. Q.
ISSN (print)	1048-9843
Scope	Business and International Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology Sociology and Political Science