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

Hawks J. 2001. The Y chromosome and the replacement hypothesis. Science. 293(5530):567

A journal article with 2 authors

Prins G, Rayner S. 2007. Time to ditch Kyoto. Nature. 449(7165):973–75

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu M, Kang H, Li X. 2014. Breaking the diffraction-limited resolution barrier in fiber-optical two-photon fluorescence endoscopy by an azimuthally-polarized beam. Sci. Rep. 4:3627

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sakamoto N, Seto Y, Itoh S, Kuramoto K, Fujino K, et al. 2007. Remnants of the early solar system water enriched in heavy oxygen isotopes. Science. 317(5835):231–33

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waxman AB. 2017. Rogues of Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alon N, Bourgain J, Connes A, Gromov M, Milman V, eds. 2010. Visions in Mathematics: GAFA 2000 Special Volume, Part II. Basel: Birkhäuser

A chapter in an edited book

Markwald RR, Ghatak S, Misra S, Moreno-Rodríguez RA, Sugi Y, Norris RA. 2016. Congenital Heart Disease: In Search of Remedial Etiologies. In Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease: From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology, eds. T Nakanishi, RR Markwald, HS Baldwin, BB Keller, D Srivastava, H Yamagishi, pp. 33–45. Tokyo: Springer Japan

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

O`Callaghan J. 2017. First Results From NASA’s Twins Experiment Surprise Scientists. 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. 1996. Education and Labor: Information on the Departments’ Field Offices. HEHS-96-178, 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

Poldervaart PG. 2010. A qualitative study of nursing didactic programs: Novice nurses’ perception of competence, confidence, and retention. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Phoenix

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

Schmidt MS, Apuzzo M. 2017. Mueller’s Moves Point to Inquiry Aimed at Trump. New York Times, June 15, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawks 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hawks 2001; Prins & Rayner 2007).

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

Two authors: (Prins & Rayner 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sakamoto et al. 2007)

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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