How to format your references using the Review of Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Political Economy (RPE). 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

Lewis, N. S. 2007. ‘Toward cost-effective solar energy use’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5813): 798–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Edmunds, J. W. and Mahadevan, L. C. 2006. ‘Cell signaling. Protein kinases seek close encounters with active genes’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5786): 449–451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sha, W. E. I., Li, X., and Choy, W. C. H. 2014. ‘Breaking the space charge limit in organic solar cells by a novel plasmonic-electrical concept’. Scientific reports 4: 6236.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schmidt, M. W. I., Torn, M. S., Abiven, S., Dittmar, T., Guggenberger, G., Janssens, I. A., Kleber, M., Kögel-Knabner, I., Lehmann, J., Manning, D. A. C., Nannipieri, P., Rasse, D. P., Weiner, S., and Trumbore, S. E. 2011. ‘Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property’. Nature 478 (7367): 49–56.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmons, M. and Dalgleish, E. 2006. Corporate Actions. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Steiger, H.-J. 2015. Microsurgical Brain Aneurysms: Illustrated Concepts and Cases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Geweniger, V. and Bohlander, A. 2014. ‘The Exercises’. In Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual: Exercises with Mats and Equipment for Prevention and Rehabilitation, edited by A. Bohlander, 57–148. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Review of Political Economy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Ultrasound Used To Create 3D Shapes In Mid Air That Can Be Seen And Felt. IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ultrasound-used-create-3d-shapes-mid-air-can-be-seen-and-felt/.

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. 1977. Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 104925.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lama, N. 2017. Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, B. K. B., curator of special collections at Hofstra University in Hempstead, and based this article on her dissertation in progress at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1987. ‘THE SUBURBAN REVOLUTION’. New York Times, Feb 1, p. 11LI1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Edmunds and Mahadevan 2006, Lewis 2007).

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

Two authors: (Edmunds and Mahadevan 2006)
Three or more authors: (Schmidt et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Political Economy
ISSN (print)	0953-8259
ISSN (online)	1465-3982
Scope