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

Tytell, E.D., 2008. Journal club: a neuroscientist marvels at our ability to learn unnatural tasks. Nature 456, 679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kagaya, K., Takahata, M., 2011. Sequential synaptic excitation and inhibition shape readiness discharge for voluntary behavior. Science 332, 365–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saavedra, S., Reed-Tsochas, F., Uzzi, B., 2009. A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks. Nature 457, 463–466.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Su, H., Bidère, N., Zheng, L., Cubre, A., Sakai, K., Dale, J., Salmena, L., Hakem, R., Straus, S., Lenardo, M., 2005. Requirement for caspase-8 in NF-kappaB activation by antigen receptor. Science 307, 1465–1468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdul-Rahman, Y., 2014. The Art of RF (Riba-Free) Islamic Banking and Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rebohle, L., 2010. Rare-Earth Implanted MOS Devices for Silicon Photonics: Microstructural, Electrical and Optoelectronic Properties, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Seibel, M.J., Meier, C., 2010. Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover – Basic Biochemistry and Variability, in: Adler, R.A. (Ed.), Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 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

Hale, T., 2017. Egyptian Mummy Thought To Be A Bird Turns Out To Be Human Fetus [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1984. [Questions Concerning the Implementation of the Student Loan Consolidation and Technical Amendments Act of 1983] (No. B-214351). 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

Rahmani, M., 2017. On the calculation of time-domain impulse-response of systems from band-limited scattering-parameters using wavelet transform (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Waldstein, D., 2016. Cleveland’s Renaissance Reaches the World Series. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tytell, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kagaya and Takahata, 2011; Tytell, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kagaya and Takahata, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Su 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