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

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

Underwood, E., 2015. Neuroscience. A faster, brighter picture of brain cells in action. Science 350, 895.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miyake, T., Kalluri, R., 2014. Cardiac biology: Cell plasticity helps hearts to repair. Nature 514, 575–576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frebel, A., Kirby, E.N., Simon, J.D., 2010. Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor. Nature 464, 72–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brooks, B.A., Foster, J., Sandwell, D., Wolfe, C.J., Okubo, P., Poland, M., Myer, D., 2008. Magmatically triggered slow slip at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Science 321, 1177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, A., 2006. Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brake, L., Kaul, C., Turner, M.W. (Eds.), 2016. The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011: Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor, Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mizuguchi, S., Ohta, K., Beers, P.J., Yamaguchi, M., Nishimura, T., 2016. Interactions Among Multiple Niche-Innovations and Multi-regimes: The Case of the “Welfare Mall” in Higashiomi, in: Loorbach, D., Wittmayer, J.M., Shiroyama, H., Fujino, J., Mizuguchi, S. (Eds.), Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: European and Asian Experiences, Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 69–89.

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 Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Streetlamps Go Green [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/streetlamps-go-green/ (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, 1999. Competitive Financing Mechanisms: Auctions Used by Federal Agencies (No. HEHS-99-57R). 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

Claypool, K.K., 2017. Organizational Success: How the Presence of Happiness in the Workplace Affects Employee Engagement that Leads to Organizational Success (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Stubbs, J., Reyes, R., 2016. Don’t Waste Your Vote. Trade It. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Underwood, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Miyake and Kalluri, 2014; Underwood, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Miyake and Kalluri, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Brooks et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics Education
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Econ. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1477-3880
Scope	Education