How to format your references using the EconomiA citation style

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

Lui, A.T.Y., 2009. Comment on “Tail reconnection triggering substorm onset.” Science 324, 1391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiong, W., Ferrell, J.E., Jr, 2003. A positive-feedback-based bistable “memory module” that governs a cell fate decision. Nature 426, 460–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zákány, J., Kmita, M., Duboule, D., 2004. A dual role for Hox genes in limb anterior-posterior asymmetry. Science 304, 1669–1672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thompson, R.J., Jackson, M.F., Olah, M.E., Rungta, R.L., Hines, D.J., Beazely, M.A., MacDonald, J.F., MacVicar, B.A., 2008. Activation of pannexin-1 hemichannels augments aberrant bursting in the hippocampus. Science 322, 1555–1559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L., Liotti, T.F., Oeser-Sweat, J., 2004. DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chang, C.C., Incaudo, G.A., Gershwin, M.E. (Eds.), 2014. Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment, 2nd ed. 2014. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Mailafiya, D.M., 2015. Agrobiodiversity for Biological Pest Control in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.), Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 18, Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 107–143.

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 EconomiA.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Dig Begins For Legendary Nazi Gold Train [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dig-begins-for-legendary-nazi-gold-train/ (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, 2008. Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution (No. GAO-09-133). 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

Liao, X., 2006. Creative Learning for Intelligent Robots (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 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

Conte, L., 2011. Scouting Report. New York Times E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lui, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lui, 2009; Xiong and Ferrell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Xiong and Ferrell, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Thompson et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	EconomiA
ISSN (print)	1517-7580
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