How to format your references using the Information Economics and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Economics and Policy. 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

Abbott, A., 2003. Chicken flu races through Dutch poultry farms. Nature 422, 247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Politi, Y., Weaver, J.C., 2015. Biomineralization. Built for tough conditions. Science 347, 712–713.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martignoli, S., Gomez, F., Stoop, R., 2013. Pitch sensation involves stochastic resonance. Sci. Rep. 3, 2676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vila-Costa, M., Simó, R., Harada, H., Gasol, J.M., Slezak, D., Kiene, R.P., 2006. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate uptake by marine phytoplankton. Science 314, 652–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Srivastava, S.P., 2014. Developments in Lubricant Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Mittelstaedt, P., 2005. Laws of Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Klai, K., Desel, J., 2012. Checking Soundness of Business Processes Compositionally Using Symbolic Observation Graphs, in: Giese, H., Rosu, G. (Eds.), Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems: Joint 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2012 and 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FORTE 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-16, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–83.

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 Information Economics and Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why Isolated Easter Island Is The Perfect Spot For A Marine Reserve [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-isolated-easter-island-perfect-spot-marine-reserve/ (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, 2000. Space Station: Prime Contract Changes (No. NSIAD-00-103R). 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

Spruill, E.L., 2008. A correlational analysis relating organizational climate to employee performance: A case study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. Unshaken by Her Low Ranking, Wozniacki Easily Defeats Keys. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Politi and Weaver, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Politi and Weaver, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Vila-Costa et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Economics and Policy
Abbreviation	Inf. Econ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0167-6245
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law