How to format your references using the Central Bank Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central Bank Review. 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
Winchester, S., 2008. China: The man who unveiled China. Nature 454, 409–411.
A journal article with 2 authors
Leslie, N.R., Brunton, V.G., 2013. Cell biology. Where is PTEN? Science 341, 355–356.
A journal article with 3 authors
Hummer, G., Rasaiah, J.C., Noworyta, J.P., 2001. Water conduction through the hydrophobic channel of a carbon nanotube. Nature 414, 188–190.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
O’Dowd, C.D., Aalto, P., Hmeri, K., Kulmala, M., Hoffmann, T., 2002. Aerosol formation: atmospheric particles from organic vapours. Nature 416, 497–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
McCormick, K., Salcedo, J., 2017. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
An edited book
Cervesato, I., Veith, H., Voronkov, A. (Eds.), 2008. Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 15th International Conference, LPAR 2008, Doha, Qatar, November 22-27, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Kang, J.X., Weylandt, K.H., 2008. Modulation of Inflammatory Cytokines by Omega-3 Fatty Acids, in: Quinn, P.J., Wang, X. (Eds.), Lipids in Health and Disease, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 133–143.

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 Central Bank Review.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Watch Water Droplets Explode As They Freeze From The Outside In [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/watch-water-droplets-explode-as-they-freeze-from-the-outside-in/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2009. Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Its Oversight Role (No. GAO-10-314T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Chun, A.R., 2017. Physiological, Ultrastructure, and Preliminary Genomic Characterization of the Marine Protist Thraustochytrium sp. LLF1b (class Labyrinthulomycetes) (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
Wagner, J., 2017. Beleaguered Bullpen Falters Again Even as Harvey Makes Progress. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winchester, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Leslie and Brunton, 2013; Winchester, 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Leslie and Brunton, 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (O’Dowd et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleCentral Bank Review
AbbreviationCent. Bank Rev.
ISSN (print)1303-0701
Scope

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