How to format your references using the Computational Economics citation style

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

Pinheiro, M. J. (2013). A variational method in out-of-equilibrium physical systems. Scientific reports, 3, 3454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bond-Lamberty, B., & Thomson, A. (2010). Temperature-associated increases in the global soil respiration record. Nature, 464(7288), 579–582.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brosco, V., Ying, Z.-J., & Lorenzana, J. (2013). Exact exchange-correlation potential of an ionic Hubbard model with a free surface. Scientific reports, 3, 2172.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Selman, C., Lingard, S., Gems, D., Partridge, L., & Withers, D. J. (2008). Comment on “Brain IRS2 signaling coordinates life span and nutrient homeostasis.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5879), 1012; author reply 1012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A. (2008). A Practical Guide to Reliable Finite Element Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Polychroniadis, E. K., Oral, A. Y., & Ozer, M. (Eds.). (2015). 2nd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress: Proceedings of InterM, October 16-19, 2014 (Vol. 164). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bergers, L. I. J. C., Hoefnagels, J. P. M., Dekkers, E. C. A., & Geers, M. G. D. (2011). A nano-tensile tester for creep studies. In T. Proulx (Ed.), MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (pp. 25–29). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Computational Economics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, July 4). Expedition Sets Sail To Assess Feasibility Of Deep-Sea Mining. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/expedition-sets-sail-to-assess-feasibility-of-deepsea-mining/. 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. (1999). Truck Safety: Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Limited Information on Causes of Crashes and Other Data Problems (No. RCED-99-182). 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

Lee, S. (2005). The Influence of Product Involvement and Fan Identification on Response to Team Sponsors’ Products (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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. (2014, February 19). And Surrogacy Makes 3. New York Times, p. E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pinheiro 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bond-Lamberty and Thomson 2010; Pinheiro 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bond-Lamberty and Thomson 2010)
Three or more authors: (Selman et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Economics
Abbreviation	Comput. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0927-7099
ISSN (online)	1572-9974
Scope	Computer Science Applications Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)