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

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

Lloyd K (2015) MICROBIOLOGY. Beyond known methanogens. Science 350:384

A journal article with 2 authors

Sobel HW, Suzuki Y (2008) Obituary: Yoji Totsuka (1942-2008). Nature 454:954

A journal article with 3 authors

Rasmussen LEL, Riddle HS, Krishnamurthy V (2002) Mellifluous matures to malodorous in musth. Nature 415:975–976

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cifuentes D, Xue H, Taylor DW, et al (2010) A novel miRNA processing pathway independent of Dicer requires Argonaute2 catalytic activity. Science 328:1694–1698

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooney N (2015) How to Be Great at Doing Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Werth G (2009) Charged Particle Traps II: Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Setoguchi H, Okamoto Y, Iketani N, et al (2012) Acceleration Noise Correction for Transfer Inference Using Accelerometers on Mobile Devices. In: Lovett T, O’Neill E (eds) Mobile Context Awareness. Springer, London, pp 77–86

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 International Economics and Economic Policy.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Mouse Sperm Still Works After Months In Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mouse-sperm-still-works-after-months-in-space/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1995) Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Ouellette RL (2008) Referral development results of relationship tie- strength for small business goal -directed networking groups. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Poniewozik J (2017) Nostalgia Goes Niche. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lloyd 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sobel and Suzuki 2008; Lloyd 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sobel and Suzuki 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cifuentes et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Economics and Economic Policy
Abbreviation	Int. Econ. Econ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	1612-4804
ISSN (online)	1612-4812
Scope	Economics and Econometrics