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

Linsky, J. L. (2011). Astronomy. Voyagers of discovery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6063), 1647–1648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tissenbaum, H. A., & Guarente, L. (2001). Increased dosage of a sir-2 gene extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature, 410(6825), 227–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Forges, B. R., Koslow, J. A., & Poore, G. C. (2000). Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature, 405(6789), 944–947.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Terrak, M., Kerff, F., Langsetmo, K., Tao, T., & Dominguez, R. (2004). Structural basis of protein phosphatase 1 regulation. Nature, 429(6993), 780–784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yevick, D., & Yevick, H. (2014). Fundamental Math and Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Golen, K. (Ed.). (2010). The Rho GTPases in Cancer. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Christinat, Y., & Moret, B. M. E. (2012). A Transcript Perspective on Evolution. In L. Bleris, I. Măndoiu, R. Schwartz, & J. Wang (Eds.), Bioinformatics Research and Applications: 8th International Symposium, ISBRA 2012, Dallas, TX, USA, May 21-23, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 48–59). 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 Atlantic Economic Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1995). Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers: Flexible Approach to Approving Demonstrations Could Increase Federal Costs (No. HEHS-96-44). 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

Davies, G. L. (2015). An analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s “Third Wind”: Arranging techniques and performance considerations (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

Hollander, S. (1999, October 17). HARVARD 37, FORDHAM 30. New York Times, p. 83.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linsky 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Linsky 2011; Tissenbaum and Guarente 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tissenbaum and Guarente 2001)
Three or more authors: (Terrak et al. 2004)

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