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

Wollman, R. (2014). Development. Counting the ways to decode dynamic signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1326–1327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov, R., & Janeway, C. A., Jr. (2002). Decoding the patterns of self and nonself by the innate immune system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois, R. L., Beiko, R. G., & Ragan, M. A. (2003). Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature, 421(6920), 217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, X.-W., Chen, J.-J., Huang, Y.-X., Sun, X.-F., Sheng, G.-P., Li, D.-B., et al. (2014). Experimental and theoretical demonstrations for the mechanism behind enhanced microbial electron transfer by CNT network. Scientific reports, 4, 3732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt, G. (2009). Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Davis, A. P. (2005). Stormwater Management for Smart Growth. (R. H. McCuen, Ed.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Coleman, C. M., Gelais, C. S., & Wu, L. (2013). Cellular and Viral Mechanisms of HIV-1 Transmission Mediated by Dendritic Cells. In L. Wu & O. Schwartz (Eds.), HIV Interactions with Dendritic Cells: Infection and Immunity (pp. 109–130). New York, NY: 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

Davis, J. (2017, January 17). Artificial Intelligence Can Accurately Predict Patients Most At Risk Of Heart Failure. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-intelligence-can-accurately-predict-patients-most-at-risk-of-heart-failure/. 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. (1996). Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives (No. HEHS-96-92). 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

DeLutis-Eichenberger, A. N. (2010). El proceso semiótico de un héroe decimonónico: Un estudio en torno a los “textos-tumbas” de Andrés Bello (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kelly, K. (2017, September 26). A Piece of Obama’s Life, Post-Presidency: Sandwiches and Speeches. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wollman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov and Janeway 2002; Wollman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov and Janeway 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

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