How to format your references using the Constitutional Political Economy citation style

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

Power, S. B. (2014). Climate science: Expulsion from history. Nature, 511(7507), 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fletcher, D. A., & Mullins, R. D. (2010). Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton. Nature, 463(7280), 485–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hiroi, T., Zolensky, M. E., & Pieters, C. M. (2001). The Tagish Lake meteorite: a possible sample from a D-type asteroid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2234–2236.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, Y., Ma, J., Wang, J., Yuan, P., Xie, G., Ge, X., et al. (2014). Single-shot measurement of >10¹⁰ pulse contrast for ultra-high peak-power lasers. Scientific reports, 4, 3818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams, P. (2015). Managing Measurement Risk in Building and Civil Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nicolini, P., Kaminski, M., Mureika, J., & Bleicher, M. (Eds.). (2016). 1st Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 170). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2009). “New Governance” in the Arctic and Its Role for Supporting Climate Change Adaptation. In T. Koivurova, E. C. H. Keskitalo, & N. Bankes (Eds.), Climate Governance in the Arctic (pp. 97–116). 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 Constitutional Political Economy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 2). Some Old (And Very Important) Mold Just Sold For $14,617. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-old-and-very-important-mold-just-sold-for-14617/. 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. (2005). 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government (No. GAO-05-325SP-CD). 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

Obeng-Dompreh, S. (2008). The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Marx, L. (2011, March 27). Lori McCoy and Edwin Rossman Jr. New York Times, p. ST15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Power 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fletcher and Mullins 2010; Power 2014).

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

Two authors: (Fletcher and Mullins 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Constitutional Political Economy
Abbreviation	Const. Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1043-4062
ISSN (online)	1572-9966
Scope	Philosophy Economics and Econometrics Law Sociology and Political Science