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

Cho, A.: Computer science. Quantum or not, controversial computer yields no speedup. Science. 344, 1330–1331 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Levy-Lahad, E., Plon, S.E.: Cancer. A risky business--assessing breast cancer risk. Science. 302, 574–575 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Peelen, M.V., Fei-Fei, L., Kastner, S.: Neural mechanisms of rapid natural scene categorization in human visual cortex. Nature. 460, 94–97 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matsuyama, E., Kondo, T., Oigawa, H., Guo, D., Nemoto, S., Nakamura, J.: Principles and application of heterodyne scanning tunnelling spectroscopy. Sci. Rep. 4, 6711 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayoun, B.A.: Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Verhelst, M.: Energy Scalable Radio Design: for Pulsed UWB Communication and Ranging. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Burg, M.M.: Stress psicologico e ischemia. In: Parati, G. and Compare, A. (eds.) Mente e cuore: Clinica psicologica della malattia cardiaca. pp. 77–90. Springer, Milano (2007)

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

Fang, J.: Baby Frogs Hatch In A Hurry When Snakes Attack, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-frogs-hatch-in-a-hurry-when-snakes-attack/

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: Vulnerabilities in the Stafford Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carver, A.: From under the blanket, (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

Kelly, M.: Clinton Chats With Reagan, Then Heads Out to the Mall, (1992)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cho 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cho 2014; Levy-Lahad and Plon 2003).

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

Two authors: (Levy-Lahad and Plon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Matsuyama et al. 2014)

About the journal

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