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

Nadeem, M., 2014. Unconditionally secure commitment in position-based quantum cryptography. Sci. Rep. 4, 6774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barres, B.A., Smith, S.J., 2001. Neurobiology. Cholesterol--making or breaking the synapse. Science 294, 1296–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rich, P.D., Liaw, H.-P., Lee, A.K., 2014. Place cells. Large environments reveal the statistical structure governing hippocampal representations. Science 345, 814–817.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tran, J.C., Zamdborg, L., Ahlf, D.R., Lee, J.E., Catherman, A.D., Durbin, K.R., Tipton, J.D., Vellaichamy, A., Kellie, J.F., Li, M., Wu, C., Sweet, S.M.M., Early, B.P., Siuti, N., LeDuc, R.D., Compton, P.D., Thomas, P.M., Kelleher, N.L., 2011. Mapping intact protein isoforms in discovery mode using top-down proteomics. Nature 480, 254–258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steenbarger, B.N., 2015. Trading Psychology 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Anagnostou, E., Brian, J. (Eds.), 2015. Clinician’s Manual on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Benz, A., Salfner, F., 2013. Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures, in: Bezhanishvili, G., Löbner, S., Marra, V., Richter, F. (Eds.), Logic, Language, and Computation: 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, Kutaisi, Georgia, September 26-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–50.

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

Fang, J., 2016. Starving Microscopic Algae Will Digest Themselves [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/starving-microscopic-algae-will-digest-themselves/ (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, 1980. Question Concerning Whether Funds Available Under Career Education Incentive Act Were Illegally Rescinded (No. B-200769). 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

Huang, Y.-F., 2013. The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts (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

Crow, K., 2001. On a Site of Terror and Death, Survivors Find a Role. New York Times H6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadeem, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Barres and Smith, 2001; Nadeem, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Barres and Smith, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tran et al., 2011)

About the journal

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