How to format your references using the Constitutional Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Constitutional Political Economy. 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

Kupferschmidt, K. (2015). Global health. Report prescribes strong medicine for WHO. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 223–224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knee, L. B., & Brunt, C. M. (2001). A massive cloud of cold atomic hydrogen in the outer Galaxy. Nature, 412(6844), 308–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., & Freestone, I. C. (2006). Mullite and the mystery of Hessian wares. Nature, 444(7118), 437–438.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brunet, M., Guy, F., Pilbeam, D., Lieberman, D. E., Likius, A., Mackaye, H. T., et al. (2005). New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. Nature, 434(7034), 752–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anthony, B., Boudnik, K., Adams, C., Shao, B., Lee, C., & Sasaki, K. (2016). Professional Hadoop®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lupski, J. R., & Stankiewicz, P. (Eds.). (2006). Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Devonshire-Ellis, C., Scott, A., & Woollard, S. (2011). Acquisition. In C. Devonshire-Ellis, A. Scott, & S. Woollard (Eds.), Mergers & Acquisitions in China (pp. 33–36). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Constitutional Political Economy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 3). Scientists Discover Evidence of Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-discover-evidence-mercury’s-explosive-volcanic-history/. 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. (2011). Information Technology: Critical Factors Underlying Successful Major Acquisitions (No. GAO-12-7). 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

Sutton, D. L. (2015). Alumni perceptions of the role of field education in professional preparation (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Joy, S. (2014, September 25). Bags That Don’t Brag. New York Times, p. E17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kupferschmidt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Knee and Brunt 2001; Kupferschmidt 2015).

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

Two authors: (Knee and Brunt 2001)
Three or more authors: (Brunet et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Constitutional Political Economy
Abbreviation	Const. Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1043-4062
ISSN (online)	1572-9966
Scope	Philosophy Economics and Econometrics Law Sociology and Political Science