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

Christe, Karl O. “Obituary: Neil Bartlett (1932-2008).” Nature 455, no. 7210 (September 11, 2008): 182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stern, Nicholas, and Chris Taylor. “Economics. Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and the Stern Review.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317, no. 5835 (July 13, 2007): 203–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schibler, U., J. A. Ripperger, and S. A. Brown. “Circadian Rhythms. Chronobiology--Reducing Time.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5529 (July 20, 2001): 437–38.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kang, Hae Joo, Fasséli Coulibaly, Fiona Clow, Thomas Proft, and Edward N. Baker. “Stabilizing Isopeptide Bonds Revealed in Gram-Positive Bacterial Pilus Structure.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, no. 5856 (December 7, 2007): 1625–28.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, Moorad, David Moskovic, Max Wong, Suleman Baig, Zhuoshi Liu, Michele Lizzio, and Alexandru Voicu. Fixed Income Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Birkeland, Charles, ed. Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene. 1st ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Filiposka, Sonja, Anastas Mishev, and Carlos Juiz. “Opportunities and Challenges for Green HPC.” In ICT Innovations 2014: World of Data, edited by Ana Madevska Bogdanova and Dejan Gjorgjevikj, 45–54. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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

Davis, Josh. “Tea Consumption Might Alter Gene Expression In Women, But Not Men.” IFLScience. IFLScience, June 2, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tea-consumption-might-alter-gene-expression-in-women-but-not-men/.

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. “Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Infrastructure Modernization Program.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 7, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lackey, Gordon Mims. “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, 2015.

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

Skurnick, Lizzie, Matt Bai, Eric Spitznagel, Mario Batali, Jessica Gross, Hope Reeves, Samantha Henig, et al. “The One-Page Magazine.” New York Times, August 3, 2012.

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