How to format your references using the Annual Review of Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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

Malissen B. 2003. Immunology. Switching off TCR signaling. Science. 302(5648):1162–63

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan G, Yan D. 2014. Positional isomers of cyanostilbene: two-component molecular assembly and multiple-stimuli responsive luminescence. Sci. Rep. 4:4933

A journal article with 3 authors

Duarte CM, Marbá N, Holmer M. 2007. Ecology. Rapid domestication of marine species. Science. 316(5823):382–83

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen H, Chandrasekar S, Sheetz MP, Stossel TP, Nakamura F, Yan J. 2013. Mechanical perturbation of filamin A immunoglobulin repeats 20-21 reveals potential non-equilibrium mechanochemical partner binding function. Sci. Rep. 3:1642

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure. 1987. Tray Distillation Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang Y, ed. 2012. Future Wireless Networks and Information Systems: Volume 2, Vol. 144. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmad A, Md Radzi AA, Adnan MA. 2016. The Effect of Enhanced Sensorymotor Feedback on Balance Among Football Players. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2015 (ICoSSEET 2015), eds. SI Ismail, N Sulaiman, R Adnan, pp. 43–53. Singapore: 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 Annual Review of Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Slowing Down The Development Of Alzheimer’s Plaques. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2015. Internet Protocol Transition: FCC Should Strengthen Its Data Collection Efforts to Assess the Transition’s Effects. GAO-16-167, 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

Garrett D. 2013. A quantitative study of STEM goal and role alignment across stakeholder leaders in California: Advocacy for application of a systems solution approach. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pepperdine University

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

Crow K. 2001. Need Milk? Too Bad. Maybe a Thong? New York Times, May 27, , p. 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malissen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fan & Yan 2014; Malissen 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fan & Yan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Econom.
ISSN (print)	1941-1383
ISSN (online)	1941-1391
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