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

de Duve, C. (2010). The joy of discovery. Nature, 467(7317), S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., & Ma, X. L. (2013). Local decomposition induced by dislocation motions inside tetragonal Al(2)Cu compound: slip system-dependent dynamics. Scientific reports, 3, 3157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gridi-Papp, M., Rand, A. S., & Ryan, M. J. (2006). Animal communication: complex call production in the túngara frog. Nature, 441(7089), 38.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Giacco, F., Ciamarra, M. P., Saggese, L., de Arcangelis, L., & Lippiello, E. (2014). Non-monotonic dependence of the friction coefficient on heterogeneous stiffness. Scientific reports, 4, 6772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pelz, G. (2005). Mechatronic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Stets, J. E., & Turner, J. H. (Eds.). (2014). Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouchelouche, K., & Bouchelouche, P. (2013). Mast Cell and Bladder Pain Syndrome. In J. Nordling, J. J. Wyndaele, J. P. van de Merwe, P. Bouchelouche, M. Cervigni, & M. Fall (Eds.), Bladder Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Clinicians (pp. 71–86). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Hale, T. (2016, June 21). We Just Learned A New Secret About The Great Pyramid Of Giza. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-great-pyramid-of-giza-is-slightly-wonky/. 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. (2012). Social Security Administration: Technology Modernization Needs Improved Planning and Performance Measures (No. GAO-12-723T). 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

Anderson, D. (2004). Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Barron, J. (2017, May 24). Its Star Aglow Again, Madison Square Park Is Ready for Memorial Day. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Duve 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Ma 2013; de Duve 2010).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Ma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Giacco 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)