How to format your references using the Emerging Markets Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Emerging Markets Review. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Macilwain, C., 2010. Scientists vs engineers: this time it’s financial. Nature 467, 885.
A journal article with 2 authors
Vinnikov, K.Y., Grody, N.C., 2003. Global warming trend of mean tropospheric temperature observed by satellites. Science 302, 269–272.
A journal article with 3 authors
Daviter, T., Murphy, F.V., 4th, Ramakrishnan, V., 2005. Molecular biology. A renewed focus on transfer RNA. Science 308, 1123–1124.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Kamermans, M., Fahrenfort, I., Schultz, K., Janssen-Bienhold, U., Sjoerdsma, T., Weiler, R., 2001. Hemichannel-mediated inhibition in the outer retina. Science 292, 1178–1180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Cooke, R., 2007. Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Naccache, D. (Ed.), 2012. Cryptography and Security: From Theory to Applications: Essays Dedicated to Jean-Jacques Quisquater on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Kinderlehrer, D., 2011. Remarks About the Free Boundaries Occurring in Variational Inequalities, in: Capriz, G., Stampacchia, G. (Eds.), New Variational Techniques in Mathematical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 103–119.

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 Emerging Markets Review.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. Samsung Unveils “See-Through” Safety Trucks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/samsung-unveils-see-through-safety-trucks/ (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, 1985. Acid Rain: Federal Research Into Effects on Waters and Forests (No. RCED-86-7). 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
Dorrance, A.M., 2008. The Role of the Partial Tandem Duplication of MLL (MLL PTD) in Leukemogenesis (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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., 2014. With Team Skating, it’s Now Kiss, Cry, Squeeze in. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2010; Vinnikov and Grody, 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Vinnikov and Grody, 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Kamermans et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleEmerging Markets Review
AbbreviationEmerg. Mark. Rev.
ISSN (print)1566-0141
ScopeBusiness and International Management
Economics and Econometrics

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