How to format your references using the Economic Theory citation style

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

Chawla, D.S.: Badges of distinction. Nature. 526, 145–146 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh, R., Cresswell, P.: Defective cross-presentation of viral antigens in GILT-free mice. Science. 328, 1394–1398 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kokoouline, V., Greene, C.H., Esry, B.D.: Mechanism for the destruction of H+3 ions by electron impact. Nature. 412, 891–894 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cui, X.D., Primak, A., Zarate, X., Tomfohr, J., Sankey, O.F., Moore, A.L., Moore, T.A., Gust, D., Harris, G., Lindsay, S.M.: Reproducible measurement of single-molecule conductivity. Science. 294, 571–574 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zirngibl, L.: Antifungal Azoles. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Jacobson, M.J., Reimann, P. eds: Designs for Learning Environments of the Future: International Perspectives from the Learning Sciences. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Hofer, T.S.: Probing Proton Transfer Reactions in Molecular Dynamics—A Crucial Prerequisite for QM/MM Simulations Using Dissociative Models. In: Rivail, J.-L., Ruiz-Lopez, M., and Assfeld, X. (eds.) Quantum Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems. pp. 115–134. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Beyond Genetics: Illuminating The Epigenome, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/beyond-genetics-illuminating-epigenome/

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: Progress and Problems in Achieving Objectives of School Lunch Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sadr, E.I.: To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran, (2013)

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

Otis, J.: Decades After a Stroke, Seeking Independence and Normalcy, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chawla 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chawla 2015; Singh and Cresswell 2010).

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

Two authors: (Singh and Cresswell 2010)
Three or more authors: (Cui et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Theory
Abbreviation	Econ. Theory
ISSN (print)	0938-2259
ISSN (online)	1432-0479
Scope	Economics and Econometrics