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

Buckholtz, N.S.: Perspective: in search of biomarkers. Nature. 475, S8 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, J., Ferré-D’Amaré, A.R.: Co-crystal structure of a T-box riboswitch stem I domain in complex with its cognate tRNA. Nature. 500, 363–366 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Markos, C., Kubat, I., Bang, O.: Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms. Sci. Rep. 4, 6057 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Högbom, M., Stenmark, P., Voevodskaya, N., McClarty, G., Gräslund, A., Nordlund, P.: The radical site in chlamydial ribonucleotide reductase defines a new R2 subclass. Science. 305, 245–248 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton, G.: Microbiology of Drinking Water. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Kruys, J.: Sharing RF Spectrum with Commodity Wireless Technologies: Theory and Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M.: Bay Educational Center. In: Smith, K.M. (ed.) Eco-Urban Design. pp. 34–41. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

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

Carpineti, A.: Curious System Could Be The First-Ever Binary Exoplanets

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: [Comments on Responsibility for Peacetime Administration of Ready Reserve Fleet]. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson, O.: Gender and Crew Resource Management: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, (2014)

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

Palmer, E., Otis, J.: Tradition of Helping Neediest Cases Inspires Readers to Give Back, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckholtz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Buckholtz 2011; Zhang and Ferré-D’Amaré 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Ferré-D’Amaré 2013)
Three or more authors: (Högbom et al. 2004)

About the journal

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