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

Fuchs, E. (2007). Scratching the surface of skin development. Nature, 445(7130), 834–842.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wuchty, S., & Uetz, P. (2014). Protein-protein Interaction Networks of E. coli and S. cerevisiae are similar. Scientific Reports, 4, 7187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fernandes, C. C., Podos, J., & Lundberg, J. G. (2004). Amazonian ecology: tributaries enhance the diversity of electric fishes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1960–1962.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Piggott, A. Y., Lu, J., Babinec, T. M., Lagoudakis, K. G., Petykiewicz, J., & Vučković, J. (2014). Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler. Scientific Reports, 4, 7210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Numai, T. (2010). Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chow, J. H. (Ed.). (2013). Power System Coherency and Model Reduction (Vol. 94). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreo, R. B. (2013). Bringing Out Faint Large-Scale Structure. In R. Gendler (Ed.), Lessons from the Masters: Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing (pp. 97–113). Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, May 29). The Oldest Organisms In The World. 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. (1974). Need for a National Weather Modification Reseach Program (B-133202). 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

Kehoe, R. M. (2009). Parental long-term care choices from the perspectives of their sandwich-generation adult children [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, July 31). The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Look Back. New York Times, C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuchs, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Fuchs, 2007; Wuchty & Uetz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wuchty & Uetz, 2014)
Three authors: (Fernandes et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Piggott et al., 2014)

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

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