How to format your references using the History of Political Economy citation style

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

Turner, Marian. “Ecology: Mangrove Maintenance.” Nature 526, no. 7574 (October 22, 2015): 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fang, Jun, and Thomas F. McCutchan. “Thermoregulation in a Parasite’s Life Cycle.” Nature 418, no. 6899 (August 15, 2002): 742.

A journal article with 3 authors

Overby, Casey Lynnette, George Hripcsak, and Yufeng Shen. “Estimating Heritability of Drug-Induced Liver Injury from Common Variants and Implications for Future Study Designs.” Scientific Reports 4 (July 21, 2014): 5762.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sherbinin, A. de, M. Castro, F. Gemenne, M. M. Cernea, S. Adamo, P. M. Fearnside, G. Krieger, et al. “Climate Change. Preparing for Resettlement Associated with Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, no. 6055 (October 28, 2011): 456–57.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, R. Alden. Virgil. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

Sorokin, Alexey, Robert Murphey, My T. Thai, and Panos M. Pardalos, eds. Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations. Vol. 20. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Visser, Willem. “Who Really Cares If the Program Crashes?” In Model Checking Software: 16th International SPIN Workshop, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Corina S. Păsăreanu, 5–5. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

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 History of Political Economy.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. “Sea Level Rise Could Drown Eggs At Turtle Nesting Sites.” IFLScience. IFLScience, July 24, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-level-rise-could-drown-eggs-turtle-nesting-sites/.

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. “International Space Station: Approaches for Ensuring Utilization through 2020 Are Reasonable but Should Be Revisited as NASA Gains More Knowledge of On-Orbit Performance.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 15, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Terrell, Neal D. “Exact Solutions to Combinatorial Optimizations and the Traveling Baseball Fan Problem.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

Gondelman, Josh. “A Comedian’s Most Important Set.” New York Times, September 1, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	History of Political Economy
Abbreviation	Hist. Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0018-2702
ISSN (online)	1527-1919
Scope	History Economics and Econometrics