How to format your references using the Atlantic Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atlantic Economic Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lusis, A. J. (2000). Atherosclerosis. Nature, 407(6801), 233–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helbing, D., & Pournaras, E. (2015). Society: Build digital democracy. Nature, 527(7576), 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.-H., Kim, H., & Kim, N. J. (2015). Brittle intermetallic compound makes ultrastrong low-density steel with large ductility. Nature, 518(7537), 77–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lin, Y., Bloodgood, B. L., Hauser, J. L., Lapan, A. D., Koon, A. C., Kim, T.-K., et al. (2008). Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synapse development by Npas4. Nature, 455(7217), 1198–1204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian, M. N. (2013). Plastics Additives and Testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Poo, D. (2008). Object-Oriented Programming and Java. (D. Kiong & S. Ashok, Eds.) (Second edition.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anand, M., Fischmeister, S., Kim, J., & Lee, I. (2008). Generating Sound and Resource-Aware Code from Hybrid Systems Models. In M. Broy, I. H. Krüger, & M. Meisinger (Eds.), Model-Driven Development of Reliable Automotive Services: Second Automotive Software Workshop, ASWSD 2006, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 48–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Atlantic Economic Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 19). New Treatment “Reverses” Cocaine Addiction In Rats. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-treatment-reverses-cocaine-addiction-rats/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2004). Telecommunications: German DTV Transition Differs from U.S. Transition in Many Respects, but Certain Key Challenges Are Similar (No. GAO-04-926T). Washington, DC: 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

Rhode, J. F. (2008). Interaction equivalency in self-paced online learning environments: An exploration of learner preferences (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, June 14). Over Guantánamo, Justices Come Under Election-Year Spotlight. New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lusis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Helbing and Pournaras 2015; Lusis 2000).

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

Two authors: (Helbing and Pournaras 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atlantic Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Atl. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	0197-4254
ISSN (online)	1573-9678
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance