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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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 titleComputational Economics
AbbreviationComput. Econ.
ISSN (print)0927-7099
ISSN (online)1572-9974
ScopeComputer Science Applications
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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