How to format your references using the European Review of Agricultural Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Review of Agricultural Economics (ERAE). 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

Priem, J. (2013). Scholarship: Beyond the paper. Nature 495: 437–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, C.-Y., and Bard, A. J. (2002). Pressure-induced insulator conductor transition in a photoconducting organic liquid-crystal film. Nature 418: 162–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parry, M., Lowe, J., and Hanson, C. (2009). Overshoot, adapt and recover. Nature 458: 1102–1103.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sandberg, R., Neilson, J. R., Sarma, A., Sharp, P. A., and Burge, C. B. (2008). Proliferating cells express mRNAs with shortened 3’ untranslated regions and fewer microRNA target sites. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 1643–1647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen, T. U. (2010). Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yazici, M. (ed.). (2011). Non-Idiopathic Spine Deformities in Young Children. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Grana, D. (2016). Rock Physics Modeling in Conventional Reservoirs. In Jin, C. and Cusatis, G. (eds), New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration. Cham: Springer International Publishing , 137–163.

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 Review of Agricultural Economics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, November 29). The Weirdest Sex Laws From Around The World. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-weirdest-sex-laws-from-around-the-world/ , last accessed 30 October 2018.

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. (1982). NSF’s Award of Two Research Vessels Met Requirements , PAD-82-14. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cox, V. (2015). A Quantitative Analysis of the Yield Curve: Forecasting the Length and End of a Recession [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, October 24). Redemption Is in Burress’s Sizable Reach. New York Times : D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Priem, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Bard, 2002; Priem, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Bard, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sandberg et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Review of Agricultural Economics
ISSN (print)	0165-1587
ISSN (online)	1464-3618
Scope