How to format your references using the Structural Change and Economic Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 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

Boyle, P., 2013. Social science. A U.K. view on the U.S. attack on social sciences. Science 341, 719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keefer, D.K., Larsen, M.C., 2007. Geology. Assessing landslide hazards. Science 316, 1136–1138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silvarolla, M.B., Mazzafera, P., Fazuoli, L.C., 2004. Plant biochemistry: a naturally decaffeinated arabica coffee. Nature 429, 826.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, H., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Han, S., Yang, H., Xu, X., Wang, Z., Petrov, V., Wang, J., 2013. Optical orbital angular momentum conservation during the transfer process from plasmonic vortex lens to light. Sci. Rep. 3, 3191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, D.A., 2006. Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Paranthaman, M.P., Wong-Ng, W., Bhattacharya, R.N. (Eds.), 2016. Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamel, N., Ouchen, I., Baali, K., 2014. A Sampling-PSO-K-means Algorithm for Document Clustering, in: Pan, J.-S., Krömer, P., Snášel, V. (Eds.), Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–54.

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 Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Origin of flowers has been discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/origin-flowers-has-been-discovered/ (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, 1975. Ways To Improve Management of Automated Data Processing Resources (No. LCD-74-110). 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

Coles, J., 2017. The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Hubbard, B., MacFARQUHAR, N., 2016. New Cease-Fire Begins in Syria, but Violations Are Reported Within Hours. 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 (Boyle, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Boyle, 2013; Keefer and Larsen, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Keefer and Larsen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
Abbreviation	Struct. Chang. Econ. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0954-349X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics