How to format your references using the European Journal of Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Political Economy. 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

Smith, C., 2003. A question of form. Nature 422, 341.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koocher, G.P., Keith-Spiegel, P., 2010. Peers nip misconduct in the bud. Nature 466, 438–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goebel, T., Waters, M.R., Dikova, M., 2003. The archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Science 301, 501–505.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Tan, Y.-W., Stormer, H.L., Kim, P., 2005. Experimental observation of the quantum Hall effect and Berry’s phase in graphene. Nature 438, 201–204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C., 2014. Sinusoidal Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Parnham, M.J. (Ed.), 2016. Compendium of Inflammatory Diseases. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Harriss-White, B., 2016. ‘Local Capitalism’ and the Development of the Rice Economy, 1973–2010, in: Harriss-White, B. (Ed.), Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 97–130.

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 Journal of Political Economy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Bird Feathers Appear Red or Blue in Completely Different Ways [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bird-feathers-appear-red-or-blue-completely-different-ways/ (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, 2002. Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches (No. GAO-02-681). 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

Jekanowski, E.C., 2017. District Leadership and Systemic Inclusion: A Case Study of One Inclusive and Effective School District (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. Stony Brook Medical Center Names Chief Executive. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Koocher and Keith-Spiegel, 2010; Smith, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Koocher and Keith-Spiegel, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Political Economy
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0176-2680
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Political Science and International Relations