How to format your references using the The Economic History Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Economic History Review (EHR). 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

Nataf, H.C. ‘Seismology. Inner Core Takes Another Turn’. Nature 405 (2000), pp. 411–12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieseberg, L.H. and K. Livingstone. ‘Evolution. Chromosomal Speciation in Primates’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (2003), pp. 267–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, J., G. Yang, and H.S. McHaourab. ‘Structural Basis of Energy Transduction in the Transport Cycle of MsbA’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (2005), pp. 1023–28.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Saleh, M., J.C. Mathison, M.K. Wolinski, S.J. Bensinger, P. Fitzgerald, N. Droin, R.J. Ulevitch, D.R. Green, and D.W. Nicholson. ‘Enhanced Bacterial Clearance and Sepsis Resistance in Caspase-12-Deficient Mice’. Nature 440 (2006), pp. 1064–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, M. and T.J. Cutler. Haematology Nursing, (West Sussex, UK, 2012).

An edited book

Lea, Doug, and Gianluigi Zavattaro, eds. Coordination Models and Languages: 10th International Conference, COORDINATION 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 4-6, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5052, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, S., H. Wang, F. Wang, and J. Shi. ‘Reliability-Based Collaborative Design Platform for Hydraulic Actuation System’. in M. Tomovic and S. Wang, eds., Product Realization: A Comprehensive Approach, (Boston, MA, 2009), pp. 1–24.

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 The Economic History Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. ‘Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice, Says Monkeys Are Next’. IFLScience, (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/frankenstein-doctor-performed-head-transplants-mice-says-monkeys-are-next/.

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. ‘Social Security Administration: Risks Associated With Information Technology Investment Continue’, (Washington, DC, 19 September 1994).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tseng, Y.H.-H. Motivation of Participation in Inservice Training Based on Problem Solving: A Modified Delphi Study, (Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008).

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

Kishkovsky, S. ‘Judges Catch Up, With Some Cramming’. New York Times, 2002.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Economic History Review
ISSN (print)	0013-0117
ISSN (online)	1468-0289
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