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:

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

Vicsek, T., 2002. The bigger picture. Nature 418, 131.

A journal article with 2 authors

KewalRamani, V.N., Coffin, J.M., 2003. Virology. Weapons of mutational destruction. Science 301, 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Widom, C.S., Czaja, S.J., DuMont, K.A., 2015. Intergenerational transmission of child abuse and neglect: real or detection bias? Science 347, 1480–1485.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Topinka, M.A., LeRoy, B.J., Westervelt, R.M., Shaw, S.E., Fleischmann, R., Heller, E.J., Maranowski, K.D., Gossard, A.C., 2001. Coherent branched flow in a two-dimensional electron gas. Nature 410, 183–186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya, S., Hameed, M.F.O., Areed, N.F.F., 2016. Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Popescu-Zeletin, R., Jonas, K., Rai, I.A., Glitho, R., Villafiorita, A. (Eds.), 2012. e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lazzini, S., Anselmi, L., Schiavo, L.L., Falanga, A.M., 2014. The Role of Information Systems to Support Performance Management in Public Administration: The Case of the Italian Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector, in: Baglieri, D., Metallo, C., Rossignoli, C., Pezzillo Iacono, M. (Eds.), Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–64.

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

Carpineti, C., 2017. Watch How These Amazing Fish Escape Predators [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-how-these-amazing-fish-escape-predators/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Needed to Avoid Disruption of Essential Services (No. T-AIMD-98-117). 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

Beyer, P.D., 2010. Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership (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

Hartocollis, A., 2015. Latest Economic Lifeline Is a Leafy One. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vicsek, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (KewalRamani and Coffin, 2003; Vicsek, 2002).

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

Two authors: (KewalRamani and Coffin, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Topinka et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central Bank Review
Abbreviation	Cent. Bank Rev.
ISSN (print)	1303-0701
Scope