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

Eisenberg L (2000) Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature 406:472

A journal article with 2 authors

Feldl N, Bilham R (2006) Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau. Nature 444:165–170

A journal article with 3 authors

Shao B, Feng M, Zuo X (2014) Carrier-dependent magnetic anisotropy of cobalt doped titanium dioxide. Sci Rep 4:7496

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Syvitski JPM, Vörösmarty CJ, Kettner AJ, Green P (2005) Impact of humans on the flux of terrestrial sediment to the global coastal ocean. Science 308:376–380

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holzman G CVT VTS De, Raffel T CVT VTS Su (2015) Surgical Patient Care for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Prain V, Cox P, Deed C, et al (eds) (2014) Adapting to Teaching and Learning in Open-Plan Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Dana RH, Allen J (2009) Transitions Integrating Research and Practice. In: Dana RH, Allen J (eds) Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society. Springer, New York, NY, pp 67–78

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

Andrew E (2015) Gamification Harnesses The Power Of Games To Motivate. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Household Goods Transport. 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

Pulsifer JE (2012) Learning from the Uighurs: Correcting Inadequate Due Process in Terrorist Financing Sanction Regimes. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Mele C (2017) Firearms and Drivers, A Lethal Combination. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenberg 2000; Feldl and Bilham 2006).

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

Two authors: (Feldl and Bilham 2006)
Three or more authors: (Syvitski et al. 2005)

About the journal

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