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

Schiermeier, Q. (2005). Small is beautiful. Nature, 435(7041), 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skubi, K. L., & Yoon, T. P. (2014). Organic chemistry: Shape control in reactions with light. Nature, 515(7525), 45–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aguirre, A., Rubio, M. E., & Gallo, V. (2010). Notch and EGFR pathway interaction regulates neural stem cell number and self-renewal. Nature, 467(7313), 323–327.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Berriman, A. C., Hinde, D. J., Dasgupta, M., Morton, C. R., Butt, R. D., & Newton, J. O. (2001). Unexpected inhibition of fusion in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Nature, 413(6852), 144–147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qu, D. (2016). Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Filippi, M., Stefano, N. D., Dousset, V., & McGowan, J. C. (Eds.). (2005). MR Imaging in White Matter Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nwaga, D., Jansa, J., Angue, M. A., & Frossard, E. (2010). The Potential of Soil Beneficial Micro-Organisms for Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in the Humid Forest Zone of Sub-Saharan Africa. In P. Dion (Ed.), Soil Biology and Agriculture in the Tropics (pp. 81–107). 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

Davis, J. (2015, October 24). Floating Plastic Found Within The Arctic Circle. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/floating-plastic-found-within-arctic-circle/. 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. (1996). Managed Care Initiatives (No. HEHS-96-153R). 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

Packard, J. A. (2008). Analyzing the intersection of leadership practices, emotional intelligence, and coping responses in women -owned small businesses (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Wines, M., & Shorey, R. (2017, July 7). Inside the Uproar Over a Government-Led Search for Voter Fraud. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2005; Skubi and Yoon 2014).

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

Two authors: (Skubi and Yoon 2014)
Three or more authors: (Berriman et al. 2001)

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