How to format your references using the Central Bank Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central Bank Review. 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

Grotzinger, J.P., 2013. Analysis of surface materials by the Curiosity Mars rover. Science 341, 1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C., 2006. Pattern formation and shape changes in self-oscillating polymer gels. Science 314, 798–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Senghas, A., Kita, S., Ozyürek, A., 2004. Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science 305, 1779–1782.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Slota, M., Keerthi, A., Myers, W.K., Tretyakov, E., Baumgarten, M., Ardavan, A., Sadeghi, H., Lambert, C.J., Narita, A., Müllen, K., Bogani, L., 2018. Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons. Nature 557, 691–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollin, C.R., 2016. The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pagel, J.F., Pandi-Perumal, S.R. (Eds.), 2014. Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed. 2014. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, L., 2016. Forging a Harmonious Relationship Among the Ethnic Groups, in: Tsang, S., Men, H. (Eds.), China in the Xi Jinping Era. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 97–121.

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 Central Bank Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. British Student No Longer Wants to Travel to Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/british-student-will-no-longer-be-going-mars/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. [Comments on NTSB Employee’s Claim for TQSE] (No. B-260471). 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

Wurster, K.W., 2010. Management matter? Effects of charcoal production management on woodland regeneration in Senegal (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Neuman, W., 2015. Defying U.S., Colombia Ends a Drug Tactic. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grotzinger, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grotzinger, 2013; Yashin and Balazs, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Yashin and Balazs, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Slota et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central Bank Review
Abbreviation	Cent. Bank Rev.
ISSN (print)	1303-0701
Scope