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

McGill, B. (2015). Biodiversity: Land use matters. Nature, 520(7545), 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teotónio, H., & Rose, M. R. (2000). Variation in the reversibility of evolution. Nature, 408(6811), 463–466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rohde, D. L. T., Olson, S., & Chang, J. T. (2004). Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans. Nature, 431(7008), 562–566.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Loqué, D., Lalonde, S., Looger, L. L., von Wirén, N., & Frommer, W. B. (2007). A cytosolic trans-activation domain essential for ammonium uptake. Nature, 446(7132), 195–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toutain, L., & Minaburo, A. (2013). Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Busco, C., Frigo, M. L., Riccaboni, A., & Quattrone, P. (Eds.). (2013). Integrated Reporting: Concepts and Cases that Redefine Corporate Accountability. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Deeg, K.-H. (2015). Doppler Sonography of the Head and Neck. In T. Rupprecht & M. Hofbeck (Eds.), Doppler Sonography in Infancy and Childhood (pp. 229–272). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 8). Scientists Discover How A Single Mutation Can Cause Autism. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientist-find-how-genetic-switch-likely-cause-autism/. 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. (2011). Aviation Security: TSA Has Enhanced Its Explosives Detection Requirements for Checked Baggage, but Additional Screening Actions Are Needed (No. GAO-11-740). 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

Surges, G. (2015). Generative Audio Systems: Musical Applications of Time-Varying Feedback Networks and Computational Aesthetics (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Castle, S., & Erlanger, S. (2017, January 17). British Premier Outlines Path to a Clean Break With the E.U. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGill 2015).
This sentence cites two references (McGill 2015; Teotónio and Rose 2000).

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

Two authors: (Teotónio and Rose 2000)
Three or more authors: (Loqué 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

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