How to format your references using the Economic Analysis and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economic Analysis and Policy. 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

Foote, J., 2003. Immunology. Isomeric antibodies. Science 299, 1327–1328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hazen, R.M., Roedder, E., 2001. Biogeology. How old are bacteria from the Permian age? Nature 411, 155–156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Våge, S., Storesund, J.E., Thingstad, T.F., 2013. SAR11 viruses and defensive host strains. Nature 499, E3-4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, Y., Wang, L.-X., Ke, X., Van Tendeloo, G., Wu, X.-S., Yu, D.-P., Liao, Z.-M., 2014. High-mobility Bi2Se3 nanoplates manifesting quantum oscillations of surface states in the sidewalls. Sci. Rep. 4, 3817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter, K.B., 2014. Actionable Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ciufolini, I., Matzner, R.A. (Eds.), 2010. General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler, Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, P., Dai, G., Fu, T., Zeng, H., Zhang, X., 2007. A Lazy EDF Interrupt Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessor in Parallel Computing Environment, in: Jin, H., Rana, O.F., Pan, Y., Prasanna, V.K. (Eds.), Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 7th International Conference, ICA3PP 2007, Hangzhou, China, June 11-14, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–59.

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 Economic Analysis and Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. How We Can Break Free From Sexism In Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-we-can-break-free-sexism-science/ (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, 1973. Management of the Overseas Dependents School System (No. B-131587). 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

Cervantes, I., 2013. Flexural retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures using Green Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer plates (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2006. Slow Down and Hide Your Wallet: Traffic Police Ahead. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foote, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Foote, 2003; Hazen and Roedder, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hazen and Roedder, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Analysis and Policy
Abbreviation	Econ. Anal. Policy
ISSN (print)	0313-5926
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