How to format your references using the Economia Politica citation style

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

Vogel, G. (2000). DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5485), 1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Francesco, R., & Migliaccio, G. (2005). Challenges and successes in developing new therapies for hepatitis C. Nature, 436(7053), 953–960.

A journal article with 3 authors

Houlié, N., Dreger, D., & Kim, A. (2014). GPS source solution of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. Scientific reports, 4, 3646.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reinhardt, R. L., Khoruts, A., Merica, R., Zell, T., & Jenkins, M. K. (2001). Visualizing the generation of memory CD4 T cells in the whole body. Nature, 410(6824), 101–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev, S. T., Kim, Y. S., Bianchi, M. L., & Fabozzi, F. J. (2011). Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rajeshwar, K., McConnell, R., & Licht, S. (Eds.). (2008). Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Monnot, B., & Ruths, J. (2016). Sensitivity of Network Controllability to Weight-Based Edge Thresholding. In H. Cherifi, B. Gonçalves, R. Menezes, & R. Sinatra (Eds.), Complex Networks VII: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2016 (pp. 45–61). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Politica.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 22). Life Expectancy Predicted To Pass 90 Years Old By 2030. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/life-expectancy-predicted-to-pass-90-years-old-by-2030/. 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). Amtrak: Acela’s Continued Problems Underscore the Importance of Meeting Broader Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Projects (No. GAO-05-698T). 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

Subramanian, K. (2003). Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Qiu, L. (2017, March 14). Trump’s Often Misleading Critiques of the Affordable Care Act. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel 2000).
This sentence cites two references (De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005; Vogel 2000).

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

Two authors: (De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005)
Three or more authors: (Reinhardt et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economia Politica
Abbreviation	Econ. Polit.
ISSN (print)	1120-2890
ISSN (online)	1973-820X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance Sociology and Political Science