How to format your references using the Explorations in Economic History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Explorations in Economic History. 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

Haroche, S., 2012. The secrets of my prizewinning research. Nature 490, 311.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pertsinidis, A., Ling, X.S., 2001. Diffusion of point defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals. Nature 413, 147–150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, J., Carlson, B.E., Del Genio, A.D., 2002. Evidence for strengthening of the tropical general circulation in the 1990s. Science 295, 838–841.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Toomey, D.R., Jousselin, D., Dunn, R.A., Wilcock, W.S.D., Detrick, R.S., 2007. Skew of mantle upwelling beneath the East Pacific Rise governs segmentation. Nature 446, 409–414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee, 2007. Positive Displacement Pumps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.), 2015. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews: Volume 17, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chernousko, F.L., Ananievski, I.M., Reshmin, S.A., 2008. Stability based control for Lagrangian mechanical systems, in: Ananievski, I.M., Reshmin, S.A. (Eds.), Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Methods and Applications, Communications and Control Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 147–155.

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 Explorations in Economic History.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Discover The Secret Of Why Indian Food Tastes So Good [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-discover-secret-why-indian-food-tastes-so-divine/ (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, 1986. Results of EDP Auditor Reader Survey on Microcomputers (No. 130372). 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

Cisewski, J., 2012. Generalized fiducial inference for mixed linear models (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Michael Kelly With, 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Detective for Perot Describes Inquiry Into a Rival Business. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haroche, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Haroche, 2012; Pertsinidis and Ling, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pertsinidis and Ling, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Toomey et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Explorations in Economic History
Abbreviation	Explor. Econ. Hist.
ISSN (print)	0014-4983
Scope	History Economics and Econometrics

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