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

Germain, R. N. (2001). The art of the probable: system control in the adaptive immune system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 240–245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang, P., & Beauchamp, G. K. (2014). Evolution. Sensing nectar’s sweetness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 878–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J. H., Kloc, C., & Batlogg, B. (2000). Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature, 408(6812), 549–552.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hasson, U., Nir, Y., Levy, I., Fuhrmann, G., & Malach, R. (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1634–1640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shynk, J. J. (2016). Mathematical Foundations for Linear Circuits and Systems in Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cudré-Mauroux, P., Heflin, J., Sirin, E., Tudorache, T., Euzenat, J., Hauswirth, M., et al. (Eds.). (2012). The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012: 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 7650). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Udomsakdigool, A., & Kachitvichyanukul, V. (2008). Multiple-Colony Ant Algorithm with Forward–Backward Scheduling Approach for Job-Shop Scheduling Problem. In A. H. S. Chan & S.-I. Ao (Eds.), Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (pp. 39–55). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. (2015, May 12). Sea Level Is Rising Fast – And It Seems To Be Speeding Up. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sea-level-rising-fast-and-it-seems-be-speeding/. 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. (1977). Survey of Pricing on NASA Contract (No. 912452). 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

Bai, H. (2008). High Temperature Proton-Exchange and Fuel Processing Membranes for Fuel Cells and Other Applications (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

Hollander, S. (2002, September 21). With More Ice Time, Cohen Looks Ahead. New York Times, p. D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Germain 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Germain 2001; Jiang and Beauchamp 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jiang and Beauchamp 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hasson et al. 2004)

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)