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

Bréon, F.-M. (2006). Climate. How do aerosols affect cloudiness and climate? Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 623–624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, M. C., & Green, C. (2001). Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control. Nature, 410(6826), 366–369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger, M., Wehner, R., & Wolf, H. (2006). The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1965–1967.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Martin, R. E., Marchetti, R. V., Cowan, A. I., Howitt, S. M., Bröer, S., & Kirk, K. (2009). Chloroquine transport via the malaria parasite’s chloroquine resistance transporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5948), 1680–1682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s Law & the Successful Technocrat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shin, J. C., & Kehm, B. M. (Eds.). (2013). Institutionalization of World-Class University in Global Competition (Vol. 6). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Russo, T., & Brancaccio, G. (2016). Oral Medication in Hyperhidrosis. In G. Sito (Ed.), Hyperhidrosis: Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 23–26). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 5). Exozodiacal Light Could Hinder Direct Imaging of Earth-Like Exoplanets. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/exozodiacal-light-could-hinder-direct-imaging-earth-exoplanets/. 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. (2014). Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Needs To Prepare for Near-term Data Gaps [Reissued on January 16, 2015] (No. GAO-15-47). 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

Murray, T. M. (2008). A grounded theory of U.S. Army installation realignment and closure leadership characteristics (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Hubbard, B. (2017, January 4). Another Casualty of the Syrian War: Drinking Water in Damascus. New York Times, p. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bréon 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Green 2001; Bréon 2006).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Green 2001)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al. 2009)

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)