How to format your references using the Econometrics and Statistics citation style

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

Schneider, T., 2007. Climate modelling: uncertainty in climate-sensitivity estimates. Nature 446, E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coles, P., Chiang, L.Y., 2000. Characterizing the nonlinear growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. Nature 406, 376–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tagliabue, G., Eghlidi, H., Poulikakos, D., 2014. Rapid-response low infrared emission broadband ultrathin plasmonic light absorber. Sci. Rep. 4, 7181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ward, P.D., Haggart, J.W., Carter, E.S., Wilbur, D., Tipper, H.W., Evans, T., 2001. Sudden productivity collapse associated with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass extinction. Science 292, 1148–1151.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, N., 2010. Aerothermodynamics of Turbomachinery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sejian, V., Naqvi, S.M.K., Ezeji, T., Lakritz, J., Lal, R. (Eds.), 2012. Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gottschalk, H., Thaler, H., 2009. A Comment on the Infra-Red Problem in the AdS/CFT Correspondence, in: Fauser, B., Tolksdorf, J., Zeidler, E. (Eds.), Quantum Field Theory: Competitive Models. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 67–81.

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 Econometrics and Statistics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Stars Predicted To Average Two Planets In Habitable Zone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/stars-predicted-average-two-planets-habitable-zone/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Food Assistance: Computerized Information Matching Could Reduce Fraud and Abuse in the Food Stamp Program (No. T-RCED-98-254). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hardin, J., 2010. A study of social cognitive theory: The relationship between professional learning communities and collective teacher efficacy in international school settings (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Norton, M.B., 2013. A House of Her Own. New York Times BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schneider, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coles and Chiang, 2000; Schneider, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Coles and Chiang, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ward et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Econometrics and Statistics
Abbreviation	Econom. Stat.
ISSN (print)	2452-3062
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