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

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

Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Nature. 2005 Feb 3;433(7025):554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Funk JL, Vitousek PM. Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature. 2007 Apr 26;446(7139):1079–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Minto C, Myers RA, Blanchard W. Survival variability and population density in fish populations. Nature. 2008 Mar 20;452(7185):344–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Venegas C, Kumar S, Franklin BS, Dierkes T, Brinkschulte R, Tejera D, et al. Microglia-derived ASC specks cross-seed amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature. 2017 Dec 20;552(7685):355–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khouw MC, Guthner MW. The Options Edge + Free Trial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Apostolico A, Crochemore M, Park K, editors. Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 16th Annual Symposium, CPM 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, June 19-22, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Ginat DT, Moonis G, Freitag SK. Imaging After Oculoplastic Surgery. In: Ginat DT, Freitag SK, editors. Post-treatment Imaging of the Orbit. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 65–124.

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 Review of Black Political Economy.

Blog post

Luntz S. Weather Detected On A World With Sapphire And Ruby Clouds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-detected-on-a-world-with-sapphire-and-ruby-clouds/

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. Federal Research: Superconducting Super Collider Cost and Schedule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 May. Report No.: T-RCED-93-47.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moore DL. The Challenge Program: A quantitative analysis of strategies designed to eliminate the achievement gap [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2012.

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 K. New Concern That Politeness Is a Lost Art in the Office. New York Times. 2004 Jan 18;101.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Funk and Vitousek 2007; Koen 2005).

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

Two authors: (Funk and Vitousek 2007)
Three or more authors: (Venegas et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Review of Black Political Economy
Abbreviation	Rev. Black Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0034-6446
ISSN (online)	1936-4814
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Cultural Studies