How to format your references using the Economia Politica citation style

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

Gehrels, T. (2000). Brains, courage and integrity. Nature, 404(6776), 335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nestler, E. J., & Landsman, D. (2001). Learning about addiction from the genome. Nature, 409(6822), 834–835.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shiono, M., Matsugaki, N., & Takeda, K. (2005). Phytochemistry: structure of the blue cornflower pigment. Nature, 436(7052), 791.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Belonoshko, A. B., Skorodumova, N. V., Davis, S., Osiptsov, A. N., Rosengren, A., & Johansson, B. (2007). Origin of the low rigidity of the Earth’s inner core. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5831), 1603–1605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilbao, S. (2005). Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Petković, M. (Ed.). (2008). Point Estimation of Root Finding Methods (Vol. 1933). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Turnbull, J., & McCune, J. (2011). Puppet Scalability. In J. McCune (Ed.), Pro Puppet (pp. 89–118). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Politica.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 23). Asteroids Might Camouflage Themselves With Material From Elsewhere. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroids-might-camouflage-themselves-with-material-from-elsewhere/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1993). Planning for Education Standards (No. PEMD-93-21R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

De los Santos, E. (2014). Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal (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

Crow, K. (2002, April 7). Décolletage Is Not the Rage At This Victoria’s Secret. New York Times, p. 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gehrels 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gehrels 2000; Nestler and Landsman 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nestler and Landsman 2001)
Three or more authors: (Belonoshko et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economia Politica
Abbreviation	Econ. Polit.
ISSN (print)	1120-2890
ISSN (online)	1973-820X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance Sociology and Political Science