How to format your references using the Economics and Human Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics and Human Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kreeger, K., 2003. Seeking strength in numbers. Nature 421, 194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nash, J.D., Moum, J.N., 2005. River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean. Nature 437, 400–403.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack, A., Shelley, J.M.G., Palme, H., 2004. Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science 303, 997–1000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Omi, T., Ogata, Y., Hirata, Y., Aihara, K., 2013. Forecasting large aftershocks within one day after the main shock. Sci. Rep. 3, 2218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steenbarger, B.N., 2015. Trading Psychology 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Féray, V., 2016. Mod-ϕ Convergence: Normality Zones and Precise Deviations, SpringerBriefs in Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Genovese, E., Leonardi, A., Callegari, L., Angeretti, M.G., Albrizio, M., Spanò, E., Fugazzola, C., 2011. Major and Minor Pediatric Traumatic Musculotendinous Injuries, in: Martino, F., Defilippi, C., Caudana, R. (Eds.), Imaging of Pediatric Bone and Joint Trauma. Springer, Milano, pp. 69–81.

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 Economics and Human Biology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Chemotherapy Drug Can Replace Immunity Suppression [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemotherapy-drug-can-replace-immunity-suppression/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Faces Tremendous Challenges in Ensuring That Vital Public Services Are Not Disrupted (No. T-AIMD-98-167). 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

Kinney, C.E., 2009. Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Crow, K., 2001. On a Site of Terror and Death, Survivors Find a Role. New York Times H6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2003; Nash and Moum, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Nash and Moum, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Omi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics and Human Biology
Abbreviation	Econ. Hum. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1570-677X
Scope	Health(social science)