How to format your references using the Experimental Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Jeltsch, A. (2010). Molecular biology. Phylogeny of methylomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 837–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caruthers, M., & Wells, R. (2011). Retrospective. Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6062), 1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reichardt, B. W., Unger, F., & Vazirani, U. (2013). Classical command of quantum systems. Nature, 496(7446), 456–460.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Evason, K., Huang, C., Yamben, I., Covey, D. F., & Kornfeld, K. (2005). Anticonvulsant medications extend worm life-span. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5707), 258–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krabbes, G., Fuchs, G., Canders, W.-R., May, H., & Palka, R. (2006). High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sainz, M. A. (2014). Modal Interval Analysis: New Tools for Numerical Information. (J. Armengol, R. Calm, P. Herrero, L. Jorba, & J. Vehi, Eds.) (Vol. 2091). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Emadzadeh, A. A., & Speyer, J. L. (2011). Pulse Delay Estimation Using Epoch Folding. In J. L. Speyer (Ed.), Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars (pp. 49–72). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Experimental Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 2). Bonobo Study Reveals Our Ancestors Likely Had Less Body Fat and More Muscle Mass. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bonobo-dissections-reveal-selection-pressures-our-ancestors/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2000). Electronic Signature: Sanction of the Department of State’s System (No. AIMD-00-227R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Timko, E. J. (2017). Polynomial Tuples of Commuting Isometries Constrained by 1-Dimensional Varieties (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Hollander, S. (2001, September 9). Is the Field Getting Too Crowded? New York Times, p. 14NJ7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jeltsch 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Caruthers and Wells 2011; Jeltsch 2010).

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

Two authors: (Caruthers and Wells 2011)
Three or more authors: (Evason et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Economics
Abbreviation	Exp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1386-4157
ISSN (online)	1573-6938
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)