How to format your references using the European Economic Review citation style

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

Holmes, E.C., 2010. Virology. Helping the resistance. Science 328, 1243–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eroglu, C., Barres, B.A., 2010. Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia. Nature 468, 223–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuthill, P.G., Monnier, J.D., Danchi, W.C., 2001. A dusty torus around the luminous young star LkH alpha101. Nature 409, 1012–1014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leutgeb, S., Leutgeb, J.K., Barnes, C.A., Moser, E.I., McNaughton, B.L., Moser, M.-B., 2005. Independent codes for spatial and episodic memory in hippocampal neuronal ensembles. Science 309, 619–623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka, H.J., 2010. Transitions in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Schramm, J. (Ed.), 2015. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 42, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ishikawa, M., Nagamatsu, M., Hagiwara, T., Yamamoto, N., Kiriake, F., Nishida, T., Yamakawa, T., Ishii, K., Nakagawa, H., Zhang, H., 2010. Brain-Inspired Emergence of Behaviors Based on Values and Curiosity in Mobile Robots, in: Hanazawa, A., Miki, T., Horio, K. (Eds.), Brain-Inspired Information Technology, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–38.

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 European Economic Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Hubble Space Telescope’s Chief Scientist On What It Took To Get The Project Off The Ground [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-space-telescope-s-chief-scientist-what-it-took-get-project-ground/ (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, 1988. Securities Regulation: Hostile Corporate Takeovers: Synopses of Thirty-Two Attempts (No. GGD-88-48FS). 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

Hill, J.A., 2012. Classical three-body systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

(nyt), S.K., 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: More Delays For Kursk. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Eroglu and Barres, 2010; Holmes, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Eroglu and Barres, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Leutgeb et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Economic Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0014-2921
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance