How to format your references using the Computational Economics citation style

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

Birnbaum, M. J. (2008). Signal transduction. Sweet conundrum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1348–1349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkow, N. D., & Baler, R. D. (2012). Neuroscience. To stop or not to stop? Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6068), 546–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holmberg, V. C., Panthani, M. G., & Korgel, B. A. (2009). Phase transitions, melting dynamics, and solid-state diffusion in a nano test tube. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 405–407.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brizuela, F., Heyl, C. M., Rudawski, P., Kroon, D., Rading, L., Dahlström, J. M., et al. (2013). Efficient high-order harmonic generation boosted by below-threshold harmonics. Scientific reports, 3, 1410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley, R. L., Jr. (2011). Edison to Enron. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jankowski, J. A. Z. (Ed.). (2011). Inflammation and Gastrointestinal Cancers (Vol. 185). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hallani, S. E., & Ratbi, I. (2011). Familial Gliomas: Role of TP53 Gene. In M. A. Hayat (Ed.), Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2: Gliomas: Glioblastoma (Part 2) (pp. 39–45). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Computational Economics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 22). Check Out These Amazing Artworks Created With Microbes In A Petri Dish. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/amazing-art-created-microbes-petri-dish/. 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. (1976). General Accounting Office Reviews of Federal Environmental Research and Development (No. RED-76-95). 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

Thirumal, V. M. (2017). Production of Microbial Lipids from Lipomyces starkeyi (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, November 17). Anniversary Present: 25-Cent Comic Books. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Birnbaum 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Birnbaum 2008; Volkow and Baler 2012).

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

Two authors: (Volkow and Baler 2012)
Three or more authors: (Brizuela et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Economics
Abbreviation	Comput. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0927-7099
ISSN (online)	1572-9974
Scope	Computer Science Applications Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)