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

Weissert, H. (2000). Deciphering methane’s fingerprint. Nature, 406(6794), 356–357.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morandi, B., & Carreira, E. M. (2012). Iron-catalyzed cyclopropanation in 6 M KOH with in situ generation of diazomethane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6075), 1471–1474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schweitzer, M. H., Wittmeyer, J. L., & Horner, J. R. (2005). Gender-specific reproductive tissue in ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1456–1460.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, Y. T., Zhang, B., Zheng, S. J., Wang, J., San, X. Y., & Ma, X. L. (2014). Atomic-scale decoration for improving the pitting corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steels. Scientific reports, 4, 3604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, Y. (2015). Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pomerance, C., & Rassias, M. T. (Eds.). (2015). Analytic Number Theory: In Honor of Helmut Maier’s 60th Birthday. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Leu, G., & Namatame, A. (2009). Evolving Failure Resilience in Scale-Free Networks. In M. Gen, D. Green, O. Katai, B. McKay, A. Namatame, R. A. Sarker, & B.-T. Zhang (Eds.), Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (pp. 49–59). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Evans, K. (2017, January 27). By Age 6 Girls Are More Likely To Think “Genius” And “Brilliance” Are Male Traits, Not Female. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/by-age-6-girls-are-more-likely-to-think-genius-and-brilliance-are-male-traits-not-female/. 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. (2005). Student Financial Aid: Need Determination Could Be Enhanced through Improvements in Education’s Estimate of Applicants’ State Tax Payments (No. GAO-05-105). 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

Lackey, G. M. (2015). The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate (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

Kishkovsky, S. (2000, August 31). Restructuring At the Bolshoi Costs Director His Position. New York Times, p. E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weissert 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Morandi and Carreira 2012; Weissert 2000).

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

Two authors: (Morandi and Carreira 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

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)