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

Fenchel, T., 2001. Ecology. Marine bugs and carbon flow. Science 292, 2444–2445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goddéris, Y., Donnadieu, Y., 2008. Carbon cycling and snowball Earth. Nature 456, E8; author reply E9-10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iacopino, V., Allen, S.A., Keller, A.S., 2011. Ethics. Bad science used to support torture and human experimentation. Science 331, 34–35.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, Y.J., Lee, H.S., Kim, E.S., Bae, S.S., Lim, J.K., Matsumi, R., Lebedinsky, A.V., Sokolova, T.G., Kozhevnikova, D.A., Cha, S.-S., Kim, S.-J., Kwon, K.K., Imanaka, T., Atomi, H., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Lee, J.-H., Kang, S.G., 2010. Formate-driven growth coupled with H(2) production. Nature 467, 352–355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coleman, D.D., Westcott, D.A., Harkins, B.E., 2016. CWSP®: Certified Wireless Security Professional Study Guide CWSP-205. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. (Eds.), 2010. Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 6th International Conference, ICDCIT 2010, Bhubaneswar, India, February 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Haas, M., Mittnik, S., 2008. Portfolio Selection with Common Correlation Mixture Models, in: Bol, G., Rachev, S.T., Würth, R. (Eds.), Risk Assessment: Decisions in Banking and Finance, Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp. 47–76.

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, D., 2016. You’ve Been Sold A Myth About Sports Drinks – And It Could Be Slowing You Down [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/youve-been-sold-a-myth-about-sports-drinks-and-it-could-be-slowing-you-down/ (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, 1972. Information on Federally Owned Land in Oregon Set Aside for Use by the Burns Paiute Indian Colony (No. B-147652,B-147655). 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

Nguyen, M.S., 2009. Solid families: Community-based program for pregnant and parenting adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rashbaum, W.K., Schwirtz, M., 2017. City Jails Chief Fires Deputy Accused of Eavesdropping. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenchel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fenchel, 2001; Goddéris and Donnadieu, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Goddéris and Donnadieu, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	EconomiA
ISSN (print)	1517-7580
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