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

Lipan, O., 2008. Systems biology. Enlightening Rhythms. Science 319, 417–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanag, V.K., Epstein, I.R., 2001. Inwardly rotating spiral waves in a reaction-diffusion system. Science 294, 835–837.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baram, M., Chatain, D., Kaplan, W.D., 2011. Nanometer-thick equilibrium films: the interface between thermodynamics and atomistics. Science 332, 206–209.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stokroos, I., Litinetsky, L., van der Want, J.J., Ishay, J.S., 2001. Magnetic minerals. Keystone-like crystals in cells of hornet combs. Nature 411, 654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, T.A., 2010. Guide to LEED® 2009 Estimating and Preconstruction Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Darling, L.F., Erickson, G., Clarke, A. (Eds.), 2007. Collective Improvisation in a Teacher Education Community, Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Torres, J.B., Ruberson, J.R., Whitehouse, M., 2010. Transgenic Cotton for Sustainable Pest Management: A Review, in: Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.), Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants: Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants, Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 15–53.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. African Penguins Are Dying Out Thanks To Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/african-penguins-dying-out-climate-change/ (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, 1991. Financial Management: Actions Needed to Ensure Effective Implementation of NASA’s Accounting System (No. AFMD-91-74). 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

Carter, K.E., 2009. The use of boron-doped diamond film electrodes for the oxidative degradation of perfluorooctane sulfonate and trichloroethylene (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Pilon, M., 2013. Russia Is Persuaded To Alter Statement To Call for Inclusion. New York Times SP11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipan, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lipan, 2008; Vanag and Epstein, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Vanag and Epstein, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stokroos et al., 2001)

About the journal

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