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

Huron, D. (2008). Science & music: lost in music. Nature, 453(7194), 456–457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, R., & Forge, A. (2005). Developmental biology. Life after deaf for hair cells? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1056–1058.

A journal article with 3 authors

Henikoff, S., Ahmad, K., & Malik, H. S. (2001). The centromere paradox: stable inheritance with rapidly evolving DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1098–1102.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rad, R., Rad, L., Wang, W., Cadinanos, J., Vassiliou, G., Rice, S., Campos, L. S., Yusa, K., Banerjee, R., Li, M. A., de la Rosa, J., Strong, A., Lu, D., Ellis, P., Conte, N., Yang, F. T., Liu, P., & Bradley, A. (2010). PiggyBac transposon mutagenesis: a tool for cancer gene discovery in mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6007), 1104–1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémond, Y., Ahzi, S., Baniassadi, M., & Garmestani, H. (2016). Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hess, F., Pauli, S., & Pohst, M. (Eds.). (2006). Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4076). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Verstraëte, J. (2016). Extremal problems for cycles in graphs. In A. Beveridge, J. R. Griggs, L. Hogben, G. Musiker, & P. Tetali (Eds.), Recent Trends in Combinatorics (pp. 83–116). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, December 12). The Brightest Ever Supernova Was Actually A Star Being Ripped Apart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-brightest-ever-supernova-was-actually-a-star-being-ripped-apart/

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. (2006). Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight (GAO-06-1051R). 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

Valenzuela, J. (2014). Medicare advantage’s population make-up and its impact on the future of Medicare financing [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

Chira, S. (2017, June 24). Jobs Men Don’t Want. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huron, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Huron, 2008; Taylor & Forge, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Taylor & Forge, 2005)
Three authors: (Henikoff et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Rad et al., 2010)

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