How to format your references using the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Mellars, P. (2004). Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe. Nature, 432(7016), 461–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymond, P. A., & Bauer, J. E. (2001). Riverine export of aged terrestrial organic matter to the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 409(6819), 497–500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laliberté, E., Zemunik, G., & Turner, B. L. (2014). Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6204), 1602–1605.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lecrenier, M. C., Ledoux, Q., Berben, G., … Veys, P. (2014). Determination of the ruminant origin of bone particles using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Scientific Reports, 4, 5730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, D. (2011). Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Truong, T. (2016). Effect of Milk Fat Globule Size on the Physical Functionality of Dairy Products. (M. Palmer, N. Bansal, & B. Bhandari, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersson, M., & Karlsson, C. (2006). Regional Innovation Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Regions. In B. Johansson, C. Karlsson, R. Stough (Eds.), The Emerging Digital Economy: Entrepreneurship, Clusters, and Policy (pp. 55–81). 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 Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, March 30). Satellite Image Of The Aral Sea Looks Like An Abstract Painting. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/radar-image-aral-sea-looks-abstract-painting/

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. (2001). Quality Assurance: The Fastener Quality Act’s Small-Lot Exemption (No. GAO-01-719). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Penney, G. (2010). Executive Fire Officers’ strategic thinking capabilities and their relationship with information and communication technology (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017, May 3). Rangers Regain Their Footing at the Garden and March Back Into the Series. New York Times, p. B10. p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mellars 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mellars 2004; Raymond & Bauer 2001).

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

Two authors: (Raymond & Bauer 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lecrenier et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
ISSN (print)	1370-4788
ISSN (online)	1467-8292
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