How to format your references using the History of Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History of Political Economy. 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

Fulweiler, Robinson W. “Microbiology. Fantastic Fixers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, no. 5951 (October 16, 2009): 377–78.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denicourt, Catherine, and Steven F. Dowdy. “Medicine. Targeting Apoptotic Pathways in Cancer Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, no. 5689 (September 3, 2004): 1411–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shinde, Dhanraj B., Mainak Majumder, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai. “Counter-Ion Dependent, Longitudinal Unzipping of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Highly Conductive and Transparent Graphene Nanoribbons.” Scientific Reports 4 (March 13, 2014): 4363.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ding, Lin, Jun-Lin Liu, Waseem Hassan, Lu-Lu Wang, Fang-Rong Yan, and Jing Shang. “Lipid Modulatory Activities of Cichorium Glandulosum Boiss et Huet Are Mediated by Multiple Components within Hepatocytes.” Scientific Reports 4 (May 6, 2014): 4715.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, Stuart D. Making Sense of Construction Improvement. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Book, Matthias. Tamed Agility: Pragmatic Contracting and Collaboration in Agile Software Projects. Edited by Volker Gruhn and Rüdiger Striemer. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Welfens, Paul J. J., Jens K. Perret, Tony Irawan, and Evgeniya Yushkova. “The Methodology of the EIIW-Vita Indicator.” In Towards Global Sustainability: Issues, New Indicators and Economic Policy, edited by Jens K. Perret, Tony Irawan, and Evgeniya Yushkova, 57–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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 History of Political Economy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “No, There’s Not A Bloody Pterosaur Flying Over Idaho.” IFLScience. IFLScience, September 9, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/no-not-real-pterosaur-flying-over-idaho/.

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. “USDA Information Management: Extensive Improvements Needed in Managing Information Technology Investments.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 14, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nawpar, Rosie Than. “Uranyl Glass for Thermometry.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Buckley, Chris. “Tycoon’s Claims Reverberate in China Despite Censorship and Thin Evidence.” New York Times, June 27, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	History of Political Economy
Abbreviation	Hist. Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0018-2702
ISSN (online)	1527-1919
Scope	History Economics and Econometrics