How to format your references using the EconomiA citation style

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

Chandler, D., 2005. Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly. Nature 437, 640–647.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, R.C., Ambros, V., 2001. An extensive class of small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 294, 862–864.

A journal article with 3 authors

Libby, P., Ridker, P.M., Hansson, G.K., 2011. Progress and challenges in translating the biology of atherosclerosis. Nature 473, 317–325.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, J.-J., Lv, A.-F., Wang, Y.-Q., Cui, B., Yan, H.-J., Hu, J.-S., Hu, W.-P., Guo, Y.-G., Wan, L.-J., 2013. Integrated prototype nanodevices via SnO₂ nanoparticles decorated SnSe nanosheets. Sci. Rep. 3, 2613.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitajima, M., 2016. Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grupen, C., 2016. Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Harness Them. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Schulz, H., Görling, A., 2014. Toward a Comprehensive Treatment of Temperature in Electronic Structure Calculations: Non-zero-Temperature Hartree-Fock and Exact-Exchange Kohn-Sham Methods, in: Graziani, F., Desjarlais, M.P., Redmer, R., Trickey, S.B. (Eds.), Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 87–121.

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 EconomiA.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Most Clinical Trial Data In China Is Fabricated, Government Report Finds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-clinical-trial-data-china-fabricated/ (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, 1995. School Facilities: Condition of America’s Schools (No. HEHS-95-61). 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

Fonfa, S.L., 2008. The impact of increased security on the employment options and lives of people with severe disabilities (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Nation of Individuals Sees Tennis Identity Fade. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chandler, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chandler, 2005; Lee and Ambros, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Ambros, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	EconomiA
ISSN (print)	1517-7580
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