How to format your references using the International Review of Applied Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review of Applied 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	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

Macilwain, C. 2000. “Budget Crisis Forces Hard Choices on US High-Energy Physics.” Nature 404 (6781): 909–910.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holland, William L., and Philipp E. Scherer. 2013. “Cell Biology. Ronning after the Adiponectin Receptors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6165): 1460–1461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadqi, Mourad, David Fushman, and Victor Muñoz. 2006. “Atom-by-Atom Analysis of Global Downhill Protein Folding.” Nature 442 (7100): 317–321.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hessa, Tara, Hyun Kim, Karl Bihlmaier, Carolina Lundin, Jorrit Boekel, Helena Andersson, Ingmarie Nilsson, Stephen H. White, and Gunnar von Heijne. 2005. “Recognition of Transmembrane Helices by the Endoplasmic Reticulum Translocon.” Nature 433 (7024): 377–381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reinke, Petra. 2012. Inorganic Nanostructures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Beunen, Raoul, Kristof Van Assche, and Martijn Duineveld, eds. 2015. Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Andoh-Baidoo, Francis Kofi, Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah, and Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson. 2014. “Application of a Hybrid Induction-Based Approach for Exploring Cumulative Abnormal Returns.” In Advances in Research Methods for Information Systems Research: Data Mining, Data Envelopment Analysis, Value Focused Thinking, edited by Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson and Ojelanki Ngwenyama, 45–61. Integrated Series in Information Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Review of Applied Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Surinam Toad Childbirth: Trypophobics Need Not Apply.” IFLScience, IFLScience, February 28. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/surinam-toad-childbirth-trypophobics-need-not-apply/.

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. 1996. Army Aviation Testing: Need to Reassess Consolidation Plan. NSIAD-96-87. 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

Manandhar, Rachana. 2017. “Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Dudziak, Mary L. 2012. “This War Is Not Over Yet.” New York Times, February 16, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Holland and Scherer 2013).

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

Two authors: (Holland and Scherer 2013)
Three authors: (Sadqi, Fushman, and Muñoz 2006)
4 or more authors: (Hessa et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Applied Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Appl. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0269-2171
ISSN (online)	1465-3486
Scope	Economics and Econometrics