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

Gravitz, L., 2015. Prevention: Tending the gut. Nature 521, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zucker, A.A., Light, D., 2009. Laptop programs for students. Science 323, 82–85.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mashchenko, S., Wadsley, J., Couchman, H.M.P., 2008. Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxy formation. Science 319, 174–177.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Z.Y., Seto, H., Fujioka, S., Yoshida, S., Chory, J., 2001. BRI1 is a critical component of a plasma-membrane receptor for plant steroids. Nature 410, 380–383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov, B.M., 2010. Cluster Processes in Gases and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Garoufallou, E., Greenberg, J. (Eds.), 2013. Metadata and Semantics Research: 7th Research Conference, MTSR 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheah, Y.-L., Toh, G.C.-H., Heng, J.-W., Wee, E.W.-L., 2015. Transdisciplinary Management of Perioperative Nutrition, in: Tan, K.-Y. (Ed.), Transdisciplinary Perioperative Care in Colorectal Surgery: An Integrative Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–75.

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

Hale, T., 2016. 61-Year-Old Former Boxer Has A Run In With A Black Bear [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/61yearold-former-boxer-has-a-run-in-with-a-black-bear/ (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, 1989. Motor Vehicle Safety: Passive Restraints Needed to Make Light Trucks Safer (No. RCED-90-56). 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

Kidder, E.O., 2014. Self-administered HPV Testing as a Cervical Cancer Screening Option: Exploring the Perspectives of Hispanic and Arab Women in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: New Law Restricts Religions. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz, 2015; Zucker and Light, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zucker and Light, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2001)

About the journal

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