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

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

Pierrehumbert RT (2004) Warming the world. Nature 432:677

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen CP, Reddien PW (2011) Polarized notum activation at wounds inhibits Wnt function to promote planarian head regeneration. Science 332:852–855

A journal article with 3 authors

Veizer J, Godderis Y, François LM (2000) Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon. Nature 408:698–701

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Battin TJ, Kaplan LA, Denis Newbold J, Hansen CME (2003) Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms. Nature 426:439–442

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Malah KIM (2016) Aspen Plus®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bowers EP, Geldhof GJ, Johnson SK, et al (eds) (2015) Promoting Positive Youth Development: Lessons from the 4-H Study. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bruynooghe M, Gallagher J, Van Humbeeck W (2005) Inference of Well-Typings for Logic Programs with Application to Termination Analysis. In: Hankin C, Siveroni I (eds) Static Analysis: 12th International Symposium, SAS 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–51

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 Economics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Earth’s Electromagnetic Field Is Weakening. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/earths-electromagnetic-field-weakening/. 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 (2000) Transit Grants: Department of Labor’s Certification Process. 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

Sweeney MT (2010) Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare treatment outcomes: Wediko Children’s Services short-term residential treatment program. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Sanger DE, Rosenberg M, Schmidt MS (2017) Republicans Join Calls for Independent Investigator. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pierrehumbert 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Pierrehumbert 2004; Petersen and Reddien 2011).

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

Two authors: (Petersen and Reddien 2011)
Three or more authors: (Battin et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1865-1704
ISSN (online)	1863-4613
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance