How to format your references using the Economic Analysis and Policy citation style

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

Sargent, W., 2004. Obituary: J. Beverley Oke (1928-2004). Nature 428, 483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., 2014. Satellites: Make Earth observations open access. Nature 513, 30–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, J., Pray, C., Rozelle, S., 2002. Enhancing the crops to feed the poor. Nature 418, 678–684.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pertel, T., Hausmann, S., Morger, D., Züger, S., Guerra, J., Lascano, J., Reinhard, C., Santoni, F.A., Uchil, P.D., Chatel, L., Bisiaux, A., Albert, M.L., Strambio-De-Castillia, C., Mothes, W., Pizzato, M., Grütter, M.G., Luban, J., 2011. TRIM5 is an innate immune sensor for the retrovirus capsid lattice. Nature 472, 361–365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherrie, J.W., Howie, R.M., Semple, S., 2010. Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Guo, K., 2015. Multiplication Operators on the Bergman Space, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

De Pasquale, R., Dinotta, F., Micali, G., 2011. Le lesioni elementari, in: Innocenzi, D., Fabbrocini, G., Monfrecola, G., Tosti, A., Veraldi, S. (Eds.), Le Basi Della Dermatologia: Anatomia · Fisiologia · Lesioni Elementari · Indagini Diagnostiche · Correlazioni Clinico-Patologiche · Note Di Terapia. Springer, Milano, pp. 83–115.

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 Economic Analysis and Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Could Yeast Be The New Hero Of Biomedical Research? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-yeast-be-new-hero-biomedical-research/ (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, 1984. Delays and Increased Cost Result From the Zilwaukee, Michigan, Bridge Project Mishap (No. RCED-84-144). 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

Mosher, L., 2008. The relationship between Christian literature and executive leader performance (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2008. Georgia Is Warned by Russia Against Plans to Join NATO. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sargent, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sargent, 2004; Wulder and Coops, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wulder and Coops, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pertel et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Analysis and Policy
Abbreviation	Econ. Anal. Policy
ISSN (print)	0313-5926
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