How to format your references using the Economics and Human Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economics and Human Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Mills, E., 2005. Insurance in a climate of change. Science 309, 1040–1044.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yurimoto, H., Kuramoto, K., 2004. Molecular cloud origin for the oxygen isotope heterogeneity in the solar system. Science 305, 1763–1766.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korswagen, H.C., Herman, M.A., Clevers, H.C., 2000. Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans. Nature 406, 527–532.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Y., Yu, G., Liang, B., Zou, X., Li, G., Cheng, S., Cheng, J., 2014. Three-dimensional ultrathin planar lenses by acoustic metamaterials. Sci. Rep. 4, 6830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot, G., La Borderie, C., Reess, T., Chen, W., Maurel, O., Rey-Berbeder, F., de Ferron, A., 2016. Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Corruble, V., Takeda, M., Suzuki, E. (Eds.), 2007. Discovery Science: 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, October 1-4, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kechagias, D., Laspas, F., 2015. Imaging of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms, in: Sakorafas, G.H., Smyrniotis, V., Sarr, M.G. (Eds.), Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms: From Imaging to Differential Diagnosis and Management. Springer, Milano, pp. 37–52.

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 Economics and Human Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Discovered: Stone Tools That Go Back Beyond Earliest Humans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/discovered-stone-tools-go-back-beyond-earliest-humans/ (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, 1972. Examination Into Possible Irregularities in the Use of Federal Funds in the Administration of the Chemawa Indian School in Marion County, Oregon] (No. B-114868). 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

Quiros, P.Q., 2014. SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Review of Texas Association Sought. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mills, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mills, 2005; Yurimoto and Kuramoto, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yurimoto and Kuramoto, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economics and Human Biology
Abbreviation	Econ. Hum. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1570-677X
Scope	Health(social science)