How to format your references using the European Economic Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Economic 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:

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

Goldston, D., 2007. Political climate. Nature 450, 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Z.-H., Schaap, P., 2012. The prokaryote messenger c-di-GMP triggers stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium. Nature 488, 680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, F., Li, J., Wilson, R.J.S., 2014. A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci. Rep. 4, 6739.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Estève, J., Gross, C., Weller, A., Giovanazzi, S., Oberthaler, M.K., 2008. Squeezing and entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature 455, 1216–1219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu, X., Ding, C., Hu, D., 2013. Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Solaris South Tower, Singapore.

An edited book

Geradts, Z.J.M.H., Franke, K.Y., Veenman, C.J. (Eds.), 2009. Computational Forensics: Third International Workshop, IWCF 2009, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 13-14, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kunihiro, N., 2012. On Optimal Bounds of Small Inverse Problems and Approximate GCD Problems with Higher Degree, in: Gollmann, D., Freiling, F.C. (Eds.), Information Security: 15th International Conference, ISC 2012, Passau, Germany, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–69.

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 European Economic Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Embryonic Stem Cells Show Promise As MS Treatment In Mice [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-show-promise-ms-treatment-mice/ (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, 1992. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public Benefits, but Challenges Remain (No. RCED-93-16). 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

Bearden, B.A., 2008. Followership as perceived by leaders in a multidisciplinary healthcare organization (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

Williams, J., 2017. Zinzi Clemmons. New York Times C18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Schaap, 2012; Goldston, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Schaap, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Estève et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Economic Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0014-2921
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance