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

Sette, A., 2000. Tools of the trade in vaccine design. Science 290, 2074b–5b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meissner, A., Jaenisch, R., 2006. Generation of nuclear transfer-derived pluripotent ES cells from cloned Cdx2-deficient blastocysts. Nature 439, 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, L.K.G., Lovell, M.M., Weix, D.J., 2015. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature 524, 454–457.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gore, A.V., Maegawa, S., Cheong, A., Gilligan, P.C., Weinberg, E.S., Sampath, K., 2005. The zebrafish dorsal axis is apparent at the four-cell stage. Nature 438, 1030–1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo, G., García-Martín, M.A., 2005. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gerdt, V.P., Koepf, W., Mayr, E.W., Vorozhtsov, E.V. (Eds.), 2013. Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing: 15th International Workshop, CASC 2013, Berlin, Germany, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonadeo, C.M., Guidi, A., Straface, A., Marcotte, R.D., Bonadeo, C.M., Noble, S., Cottrell, E.J., Lahey, S.E., Burnett, C., Marenbon, J., Zografidis, G., Erismann, C., Boer, S., Brumberg-Chaumont, J., Hoenen, M.J.F.M., Carusi, P., Moureau, S., Genequand, C., Cullen, C., Biesterfeldt, H.H., Vallat, P., Wakelnig, E., Holopainen, T.J., Burnett, C., Zonta, M., Burnett, C., Akasoy, A., Matula, J., Marenbon, J., Geoffroy, M., Baffioni, C., Baffioni, C., Gerwing, M., Robert, A., Matthews, G.B., Demetracopoulos, J.A., McGrade, A.S., Benedetto, M., 2011. Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ (Rhazes), in: Lagerlund, H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 6–10.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Blue Whale Spotted Tangled In Fishing Line Off Southern Californian Coast [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blue-whale-spotted-tangled-fishing-line-southern-californian-coast/ (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, 1994. Space Station: Plans to Expand Research Community Do Not Match Available Resources (No. NSIAD-95-33). 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

Smith, K.A., 2010. Impact of animal assisted therapy reading instruction on reading performance of homeschooled students (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Kershner, I., Goldman, A., Blinder, A., Pérez-Peña, R., 2017. Teenager in Israel Is Arrested in Threats to U.S. Jewish Centers. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sette, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Meissner and Jaenisch, 2006; Sette, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Meissner and Jaenisch, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gore et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	EconomiA
ISSN (print)	1517-7580
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