How to format your references using the Emerging Markets Review citation style

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

Batty, M., 2013. Sociology. A theory of city size. Science 340, 1418–1419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelton, J.N., Logsdon, J., 2008. Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Science 320, 189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hurst, L.D., Feil, E.J., Rocha, E.P.C., 2006. Protein evolution: causes of trends in amino-acid gain and loss. Nature 442, E11-2; discussion E12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, Y., Tang, H., Ren, H., Yu, H., Wang, L., Zhang, W., Behrman, E.J., Xu, P., 2013. Iron(II)-dependent dioxygenase and N-formylamide deformylase catalyze the reactions from 5-hydroxy-2-pyridone to maleamate. Sci. Rep. 3, 3235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McAulay, A.D., 2011. Military Laser Technology for Defense. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Graham, T.C.N., Palanque, P. (Eds.), 2008. Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 15th International Workshop, DSV-IS 2008 Kingston, Canada, July 16-18, 2008 Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott, K., 2015. Problem or Paradox: Teaching the Catholic Religion in Catholic Schools, in: Buchanan, M.T., Gellel, A.-M. (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–60.

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 Emerging Markets Review.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. All-Female Hybrid Salamanders Take Genes From Males Of Three Different Species To Breed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/allfemale-hybrid-salamanders-take-genes-from-males-of-three-different-species-to-breed/ (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, 1979. Need for More Effective Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education (No. FGMSD-79-44). 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

Edwards, K., 2017. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Narratives: Personalization of Delivery via Brief Experimental Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Baseball; Mets’ Wright Has Another Operation. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Batty, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Batty, 2013; Pelton and Logsdon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pelton and Logsdon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emerging Markets Review
Abbreviation	Emerg. Mark. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1566-0141
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics