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

Victor, D. (2009). Plan B for Copenhagen. Nature, 461(7262), 342–344.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jia, T., & Barabási, A.-L. (2013). Control capacity and a random sampling method in exploring controllability of complex networks. Scientific reports, 3, 2354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Su, Z., Huang, W., & Gu, X. (2011). Comment on “Positive selection of tyrosine loss in metazoan evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 917; author reply 917.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Levy, S., Lahoud, E., Shomroni, I., & Steinhauer, J. (2007). The a.c. and d.c. Josephson effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature, 449(7162), 579–583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A. (2014). Network Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Agarwal, R. P. (2014). Oscillation and Stability of Delay Models in Biology. (D. O’Regan & S. H. Saker, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hwang, Y., Chae, H., & Jeon, M. (2010). A Variant of Naor-Pinkas Oblivious Transfer for More Efficient Authentication. In G. S. Tomar, R.-S. Chang, O. Gervasi, T.-H. Kim, & S. K. Bandyopadhyay (Eds.), Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology: Second International Conference, AST 2010, Miyazaki, Japan, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 32–38). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, January 24). Here’s What Life Will Be Like In 2022, According To IBM. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-what-life-will-be-like-in-2022-according-to-ibm/. 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. (2014). Data Transparency: Oversight Needed to Address Underreporting and Inconsistencies on Federal Award Website (No. GAO-14-476). 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

Rehan, T. Y. (2016). Analysis of Life-Cycle Cost, Properties, and Field Performance of Parking Lot Pavements (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, May 5). The Most Popular During April. New York Times, p. RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Victor 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Jia and Barabási 2013; Victor 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jia and Barabási 2013)
Three or more authors: (Levy et al. 2007)

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