How to format your references using the Cliometrica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cliometrica. 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

Lane J (2009) Science innovation. Assessing the impact of science funding. Science 324:1273–1275

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh H, Demarco IA (2010) Immunology. Double TIP-ping. Science 329:914–915

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisniewski W, Patschger M, Rüssel C (2013) Viscous fingering and dendritic growth of surface crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 fresnoite. Sci Rep 3:3558

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Losev E, Reinke CA, Jellen J, et al (2006) Golgi maturation visualized in living yeast. Nature 441:1002–1006

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon L, Ospina J (2015) Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Khong TY, Malcomson RDG (eds) (2015) Keeling’s Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, 5th ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zhai Z, Kijewski-Correa T, Kareem A, et al (2012) Citizen Engineering: Evolving OSS Practices to Engineering Design and Analysis. In: Hammouda I, Lundell B, Mikkonen T, Scacchi W (eds) Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability: 8th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2012, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 10-13, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–77

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 Cliometrica.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Asteroid Provides Glimpse Of Most Abundant Mineral On Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/asteroid-provides-glimpse-most-abundant-mineral-earth/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1970) Management of Federally Financed Research by the University of Michigan--A Case Study. 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

Igualada MO (2015) The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Whiteside K (2016) Racing to Break Through Barriers. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lane 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lane 2009; Singh and Demarco 2010).

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

Two authors: (Singh and Demarco 2010)
Three or more authors: (Losev et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cliometrica
Abbreviation	Cliometrica (Berl)
ISSN (print)	1863-2505
ISSN (online)	1863-2513
Scope	History Economics and Econometrics