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

Jaffe, H. (2004). Public health. Whatever happened to the U.S. AIDS epidemic? Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5688), 1243–1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S., & Feldstein, S. B. (2013). Detecting ozone- and greenhouse gas-driven wind trends with observational data. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6119), 563–567.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, B. L., Casey, W. H., & Karlsson, M. (2000). Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature, 404(6776), 379–382.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pauly, D., Alder, J., Bennett, E., Christensen, V., Tyedmers, P., & Watson, R. (2003). The future for fisheries. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5649), 1359–1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Declerck, P. (2012). Discrete Event Systems in Dioid Algebra and Conventional Algebra. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Junger-Tas, J., & Decker, S. H. (Eds.). (2006). International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lubaszewski, M., Balen, T., Schuler, E., Carro, L., & Huertas, J. L. (2007). Effects of Radiation on Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits. In R. Velazco, P. Fouillat, & R. Reis (Eds.), Radiation Effects on Embedded Systems (pp. 89–119). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Fang, J. (2015, February 24). Bones of Gorilla-Sized Lemur Found in Underwater Graveyard. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2006). Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans (No. GAO-07-146SP). 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

Wolodkowicz, R. (2008). Leadership qualities and employee-student future intentions (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

Pilon, M. (2013, July 17). Judges of a Graceful Sport, Caught in a Clumsy Cheating Scandal. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaffe 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Jaffe 2004; Lee and Feldstein 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Feldstein 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pauly et al. 2003)

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)