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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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 titleAtlantic Economic Journal
AbbreviationAtl. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)0197-4254
ISSN (online)1573-9678
ScopeGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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