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

Vahala, K.J., 2003. Optical microcavities. Nature 424, 839–846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clark, C.M., Tilman, D., 2008. Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands. Nature 451, 712–715.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg, M.S., MacDonald, M.C., Saffran, J.R., 2002. Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science 298, 553–554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Damodaram, K.J.P., Kempraj, V., Aurade, R.M., Rajasekhar, S.B., Venkataramanappa, R.K., Nandagopal, B., Verghese, A., 2014. Centuries of domestication has not impaired oviposition site-selection function in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. Sci. Rep. 4, 7472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, J., 2012. Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Shukla, V., 2014. Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Resmerita, S., Derler, P., Pree, W., Naderlinger, A., 2010. 5 Modeling and Simulation of TDL Applications, in: Giese, H., Karsai, G., Lee, E., Rumpe, B., Schätz, B. (Eds.), Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems: International Dagstuhl Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 4-9, 2007. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 107–128.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. A Supervolcano Stopped An Earthquake Dead In Its Tracks In Japan This Year [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/supervolcano-stopped-earthquake-dead-tracks-japan-this-year/ (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, 1978. Proposal for Replacement of Indian Health Service Hospital (No. HRD-78-124). 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

Little, J.L., 2014. The effects of a financial literacy intervention on teachers’ financial literacy, awareness, and advocacy (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Etheredge, P. by G., 2016. The High Line. New York Times RE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vahala, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clark and Tilman, 2008; Vahala, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Clark and Tilman, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Damodaram 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)