How to format your references using the Atlantic Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atlantic Economic Journal. 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 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

Rice, M. (2004). Physics. Superfluid helium-3 has a metallic partner. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5699), 1142–1143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunanathan, C., & Milstein, D. (2013). Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6143), 1229712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pullium, J. K., Roble, G. S., & Raymond, M. A. (2014). Emergency planning: Be prepared. Nature, 514(7523), 430.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mandel, C. R., Kaneko, S., Zhang, H., Gebauer, D., Vethantham, V., Manley, J. L., & Tong, L. (2006). Polyadenylation factor CPSF-73 is the pre-mRNA 3’-end-processing endonuclease. Nature, 444(7121), 953–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H. H. (2011). Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tryfonas, T., & Askoxylakis, I. (Eds.). (2014). Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust: Second International Conference, HAS 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8533). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chesdachai, S., & Tangpricha, V. (2016). Vitamin D Deficiency in Anorexia Nervosa. In V. Tangpricha (Ed.), Vitamin D: A Clinical Casebook (pp. 25–31). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Atlantic Economic Journal.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, September 21). Antidepressant Trial Failed To Mention Numerous Suicide Attempts. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-antidepressant-safety-didnt-report-suicide-attempts/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1978). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Organization Organic Act (No. 105671). 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

McMiller, B. (2010). Policy analysis on the Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, May 16). The Illustrated Stories of Teenagers, Told With Humor and a Light Heart. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gunanathan and Milstein 2013; Rice 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gunanathan and Milstein 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mandel et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atlantic Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Atl. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	0197-4254
ISSN (online)	1573-9678
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance