How to format your references using the Economic Theory citation style

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

Zupanc, G.K.H.: Obituary: Theodore H. Bullock (1915-2005). Nature. 439, 280 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mendelson, T.C., Shaw, K.L.: Sexual behaviour: rapid speciation in an arthropod. Nature. 433, 375–376 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahal, D., Liu, S., Oeding, J.: The carbon cycle and hurricanes in the United States between 1900 and 2011. Sci. Rep. 4, 5197 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Hughes, L., McIntyre, S., Lindenmayer, D.B., Parmesan, C., Possingham, H.P., Thomas, C.D.: Ecology. Assisted colonization and rapid climate change. Science. 321, 345–346 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silva Elipe, M.V.: LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Drira, K. ed: Software Architecture: 7th European Conference, ECSA 2013, Montpellier, France, July 1-5, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Wadkar, S., Siddalingaiah, M.: Basics of MapReduce Development. In: Siddalingaiah, M. (ed.) Pro Apache Hadoop. pp. 73–106. Apress, Berkeley, CA (2014)

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.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: What Would Happen If You Shot A Gun In Space?, https://www.iflscience.com/space/guns-space/

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: Improvements Needed in DOT’s Hazardous Materials Rail Safety Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Al-Kharafi, H.T.: TF-CBT with the Pediatric Medical Population: A Modification, (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

Salms-Moss, S.: Absolutely Final Delivery, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zupanc 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Mendelson and Shaw 2005; Zupanc 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mendelson and Shaw 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Theory
Abbreviation	Econ. Theory
ISSN (print)	0938-2259
ISSN (online)	1432-0479
Scope	Economics and Econometrics