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

Stokstad, E. (2000). MARINE CONSERVATION: Virginia Gets Crabby About Harvest Limits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5482), 1122a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lazar, M. A., & Birnbaum, M. J. (2012). Physiology. De-meaning of metabolism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1651–1652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thorsen, T., Maerkl, S. J., & Quake, S. R. (2002). Microfluidic large-scale integration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 580–584.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Canals, M., Puig, P., de Madron, X. D., Heussner, S., Palanques, A., & Fabres, J. (2006). Flushing submarine canyons. Nature, 444(7117), 354–357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B., Thewes, M., & Maidl, U. (2014). Handbook of Tunnel Engineering II. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Petrović, P. (2009). Digital Processing and Reconstruction of Complex AC Signals. (M. Stevanović, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eberhardt, U., Rulhoff, S., & Stjepandic, J. (2010). Integration of Time Management in the Digital Factory. In J. Pokojski, S. Fukuda, & J. Salwiński (Eds.), New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering: Proceedings of the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (pp. 33–41). London: Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, October 8). Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1987). Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 9 (No. 134157). 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

Strand, K. (2014). Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Williams, J. (2017, July 30). The Teacher Learns She’s a Student, Too. New York Times, p. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stokstad 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lazar and Birnbaum 2012; Stokstad 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lazar and Birnbaum 2012)
Three or more authors: (Canals et al. 2006)

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