How to format your references using the De Economist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for De Economist. 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

Paz, J. P. (2003). Computer science. Randomness in quantum computation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653), 2076–2077.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shimamoto, T., & Togo, T. (2012). Geophysics. Earthquakes in the lab. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 54–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutiérrez, N. L., Hilborn, R., & Defeo, O. (2011). Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature, 470(7334), 386–389.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thomas, J. H., Weiss, N. O., Tobias, S. M., & Brummell, N. H. (2002). Downward pumping of magnetic flux as the cause of filamentary structures in sunspot penumbrae. Nature, 420(6914), 390–393.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baher, H. (2012). Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mooney, T. B., & Nowacki, M. (Eds.). (2013). Aquinas, Education and the East (Vol. 4). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Greve, A., & Bremer, M. (2010). The Variable Thermal Environment. In M. Bremer (Ed.), Thermal Design and Thermal Behaviour of Radio Telescopes and their Enclosures (pp. 55–83). 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 De Economist.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, November 11). This Awkward Feathered Dinosaur Was Almost Blown Up By Dynamite. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/awkward-feathered-dinosaur-almost-blown-up-dynamite/. 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. (2014). Special Education: Improved Performance Measures Could Enhance Oversight of Dispute Resolution (No. GAO-14-390). 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

Ziv, A. (2014). Dynamics in interactions with digital technology: A depth psychological/theoretical exploration of the evolutionary-biological, symbolic, and emotional psyche in the digital age (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, April 24). MetLife Settles Cases On Benefits. 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 (Paz 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Paz 2003; Shimamoto and Togo 2012).

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

Two authors: (Shimamoto and Togo 2012)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	De Economist
Abbreviation	Economist (Leiden)
ISSN (print)	0013-063X
ISSN (online)	1572-9982
Scope	Economics and Econometrics