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

Hoag, H., 2004. Testing new ground. Nature 429, 682–683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hartmann, D.L., Hendon, H.H., 2007. Atmospheric science. Resolving an atmospheric enigma. Science 318, 1731–1732.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pronin, S.V., Reiher, C.A., Shenvi, R.A., 2013. Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines. Nature 501, 195–199.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ernstorfer, R., Harb, M., Hebeisen, C.T., Sciaini, G., Dartigalongue, T., Miller, R.J.D., 2009. The formation of warm dense matter: experimental evidence for electronic bond hardening in gold. Science 323, 1033–1037.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferdjallah, M., 2011. Introduction to Digital Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Girach, A., Smet, M.D. de (Eds.), 2014. Diseases of the Vitreo-Macular Interface, Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapple, D.G., Hitchmough, R.A., 2016. Biogeography of New Zealand Lizards, in: Chapple, D.G. (Ed.), New Zealand Lizards. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 109–131.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Here’s How To Beat The Queues At The Supermarket Checkout [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-how-to-beat-the-queues-at-the-supermarket-checkout/ (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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning (No. AIMD-99-178). 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

Plumer, D.R., 2010. The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Eligon, J., Alcindor, Y., Armendariz, A., 2017. Tax Credits to House Poor Reinforce Racial Divisions. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hartmann and Hendon, 2007; Hoag, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hartmann and Hendon, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ernstorfer et al., 2009)

About the journal

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