How to format your references using the Annual Review of Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Economics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Laming JM. 2010. Astronomy. More supernova surprises. Science. 329(5999):1604–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Buschman TJ, Miller EK. 2007. Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science. 315(5820):1860–62

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina JF, Nores WL, Mauk MD. 2002. Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses. Nature. 416(6878):330–33

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zagoskin AM, Wilson RD, Everitt M, Savel’ev S, Gulevich DR, et al. 2013. Spatially resolved single photon detection with a quantum sensor array. Sci. Rep. 3:3464

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burghardt G, Walls B. 2011. Managed Futures for Institutional Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zain JM, Wan Mohd WM bt, El-Qawasmeh E, eds. 2011. Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 180. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Dye DH, Keel MF. 2012. The Portrayal of Native American Violence and Warfare: Who Speaks for the Past? In The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare, eds. RJ Chacon, RG Mendoza, pp. 51–72. New York, NY: 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 Annual Review of Economics.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Astronomy Student Discovers “Warm Neptune” Exoplanet Within Habitable Zone. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1993. Railroad Safety: Human Factor Accidents and Issues Affecting Engineer Work Schedules. RCED-93-160BR, 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

Baumgarten DK. 2013. An Examination of the Relationship between Collegiate Student-Athlete’s Leadership Role in the Athletic Setting and Their Academic Success. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Northcentral 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

Kishkovsky S. 2002. A Government Train To Tolstoy’s Birthplace. New York Times, Sep. 1, , p. 53

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laming 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Buschman & Miller 2007; Laming 2010).

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

Two authors: (Buschman & Miller 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zagoskin et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Econom.
ISSN (print)	1941-1383
ISSN (online)	1941-1391
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