How to format your references using the Economic Theory Bulletin citation style

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

Sternberg, P.W.: Developmental biology. A pattern of precision. Science. 303, 637–638 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhong, W., Sternberg, P.W.: Genome-wide prediction of C. elegans genetic interactions. Science. 311, 1481–1484 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Booth, L.N., Tuch, B.B., Johnson, A.D.: Intercalation of a new tier of transcription regulation into an ancient circuit. Nature. 468, 959–963 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gonen, T., Sliz, P., Kistler, J., Cheng, Y., Walz, T.: Aquaporin-0 membrane junctions reveal the structure of a closed water pore. Nature. 429, 193–197 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallée, R., Fuchs, W., Eligehausen, R.: Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Grehn, F., Stamper, R. eds: Glaucoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Mora Hernández, J.L., Armas Herrera, C.M., Guerra García, J.A., Rodríguez Rodríguez, A., Arbelo Rodríguez, C.D.: Enzyme Diversity in Andosols of the Canary Islands (Spain). In: Trasar-Cepeda, C., Hernández, T., García, C., Rad, C., and González-Carcedo, S. (eds.) Soil Enzymology in the Recycling of Organic Wastes and Environmental Restoration. pp. 63–76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Theory Bulletin.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: It’s Official: NASA’s Next Mission To Mars Will Launch In 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-next-mission-to-mars-will-launch-in-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: Independent Media Development Abroad: Challenges Exist in Implementing U.S. Efforts and Measuring Results. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins, S.H.: Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data, (2017)

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

Greenhouse, L.: Federal Judges Take Steps To Improve Accountability, (2006)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sternberg 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sternberg 2004; Zhong and Sternberg 2006).

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

Two authors: (Zhong and Sternberg 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gonen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Theory Bulletin
Abbreviation	Econ. Theory Bull.
ISSN (print)	2196-1085
ISSN (online)	2196-1093
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