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

Sibley LD. 2004. Intracellular parasite invasion strategies. Science. 304(5668):248–53

A journal article with 2 authors

Norskov JK, Christensen CH. 2006. Chemistry. Toward efficient hydrogen production at surfaces. Science. 312(5778):1322–23

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim BS, Yook KS, Lee JY. 2014. Above 20% external quantum efficiency in novel hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes having green thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter. Sci. Rep. 4:6019

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Basu S, Gerchman Y, Collins CH, Arnold FH, Weiss R. 2005. A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation. Nature. 434(7037):1130–34

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley RL Jr. 2011. Edison to Enron. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lakshmikantham V. 2015. Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2nd ed. 2015 ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Gyenge E. 2008. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol, Ethanol and Formic Acid. In PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Catalyst Layers: Fundamentals and Applications, ed. J Zhang, pp. 165–287. London: 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

Luntz S. 2014. Watch Cyclohexane Boil And Freeze At The Same Time. 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. 1989. Drug Testing: Management Problems and Legal Challenges Facing DOT’s Industry Programs. RCED-90-31, 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

Haigh CV. 2017. More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Hartocollis A. 2014. Mental Issues Put 34,500 on New York No-Guns List. New York Times, Oct. 19, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibley 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Norskov & Christensen 2006; Sibley 2004).

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

Two authors: (Norskov & Christensen 2006)
Three or more authors: (Basu et al. 2005)

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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