How to format your references using the International Economics citation style

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

Binzel, R.P., 2012. Planetary science. A golden spike for planetary science. Science 338, 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falzarano, D., Feldmann, H., 2015. Virology. Delineating Ebola entry. Science 347, 947–948.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seto, K.C., Kaufmann, R.K., Woodcock, C.E., 2000. Landsat reveals China’s farmland reserves, but they’re vanishing fast. Nature 406, 121.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aach, J., Bulyk, M.L., Church, G.M., Comander, J., Derti, A., Shendure, J., 2001. Computational comparison of two draft sequences of the human genome. Nature 409, 856–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, D., 2008. Aeronautical Radio Communication Systems and Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kalia, V.C. (Ed.), 2015. Microbial Factories: Biofuels, Waste treatment: Volume 1, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Liflyand, E., 2016. Weighted Estimates for the Discrete Hilbert Transform, in: Ruzhansky, M., Tikhonov, S. (Eds.), Methods of Fourier Analysis and Approximation Theory, Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 59–69.

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.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Brutal Warfare May Help Explain Differences In Chimpanzee And Bonobo Societies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1994. GAO Work Related to ESEA of 1965 (No. HEHS-94-156R). 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

Ton, N.-Q., 2015. A hierarchical wireless network architecture for building automation and control systems: Implementation and simulation study (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

Chapman, M.M., 2014. Bankruptcy Judge Gets View of Detroit Outside Courtroom. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binzel, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Binzel, 2012; Falzarano and Feldmann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Falzarano and Feldmann, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Aach et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Economics
ISSN (print)	2110-7017
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Economics, Econometrics and Finance