How to format your references using the Cliometrica citation style

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

Verma IM (2013) Medicine. Gene therapy that works. Science 341:853–855

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice SA, Haselkorn R (2012) Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011). Nature 481:266

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyron-Holtz EG, Ghosh MC, Rouault TA (2004) Mammalian tissue oxygen levels modulate iron-regulatory protein activities in vivo. Science 306:2087–2090

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yasuda H, Kobayashi M, Yasuda Y, Tsutsui T (2013) Estimation of autistic children by metallomics analysis. Sci Rep 3:1199

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laplante PA, Ovaska SJ (2011) Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nunen JAEE, Speranza MG, Bertazzi L (eds) (2009) Innovations in Distribution Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fairclough SR (2015) Choanoflagellates: Perspective on the Origin of Animal Multicellularity. In: Ruiz-Trillo I, Nedelcu AM (eds) Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life: Principles and mechanisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 99–116

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 Cliometrica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Free-flowing water discovered on the equator of Mars. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment. 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

Herman GS (2013) Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2006) Arts, Briefly; Fire Ravages a Russian Cathedral. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verma 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rice and Haselkorn 2012; Verma 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Haselkorn 2012)
Three or more authors: (Yasuda et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cliometrica
Abbreviation	Cliometrica (Berl)
ISSN (print)	1863-2505
ISSN (online)	1863-2513
Scope	History Economics and Econometrics