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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Hapgood, M., 2012. Astrophysics: Prepare for the coming space weather storm. Nature 484, 311–313.
A journal article with 2 authors
Macpherson, A.J., Uhr, T., 2004. Induction of protective IgA by intestinal dendritic cells carrying commensal bacteria. Science 303, 1662–1665.
A journal article with 3 authors
Nelson, F.E., Anisimov, O.A., Shiklomanov, N.I., 2001. Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost. Nature 410, 889–890.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Stanfield, R.L., Dooley, H., Flajnik, M.F., Wilson, I.A., 2004. Crystal structure of a shark single-domain antibody V region in complex with lysozyme. Science 305, 1770–1773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Pavlović, T., Alvarez, I., Blanco-Cano, R., Grisales, A., Osorio, A., Sánchez, A., 2008. 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
An edited book
Baker, D.N., Klecker, B., Schwartz, S.J., Schwenn, R., Steiger, R.V. (Eds.), 2007. Solar Dynamics and Its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth, Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Springer, New York, NY.
A chapter in an edited book
Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Sharp, H., 2008. Adopting Agile in a Large Organisation, in: Abrahamsson, P., Baskerville, R., Conboy, K., Fitzgerald, B., Morgan, L., Wang, X. (Eds.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–52.

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
Andrew, E., 2014. A Glass Of Wine A Day May Help Keep The Heart Disease Away - But Only For 15% Of Us [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/glass-wine-day-may-help-keep-heart-disease-away-only-15-us/ (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, 1976. Organization Conflict of Interest (No. B-178205). 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
Ruettgers, M.M., 2013. A Content Analysis to Investigate the Evidence of 21st Century Knowledge and Skills within Elementary Teacher Education Programs in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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
Brantley, B., 2016. She Breaks the Mold, and Keeps On Giving. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hapgood, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hapgood, 2012; Macpherson and Uhr, 2004).

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

  • Two authors: (Macpherson and Uhr, 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Stanfield et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleEconomiA
ISSN (print)1517-7580
Scope

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