How to format your references using the Information Economics and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Economics and Policy. 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

Hannon, G.J., 2002. RNA interference. Nature 418, 244–251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Felzer, K.R., Brodsky, E.E., 2006. Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress. Nature 441, 735–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, Z., Owen, A.B., Altman, R.B., 2004. Genetics. Genomic research and human subject privacy. Science 305, 183.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Büttner, T.F.S., Kabakova, I.V., Hudson, D.D., Pant, R., Poulton, C.G., Judge, A.C., Eggleton, B.J., 2014. Phase-locking and pulse generation in multi-frequency brillouin oscillator via four wave mixing. Sci. Rep. 4, 5032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2010. Layer of Protection Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hamblen, J.O., 2006. Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, QUARTUS® II EDITION. ed. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Talbot, K., Ong, W.-. Y., Blake, D.J., Tang, J., Louneva, N., Carlson, G.C., Arnold, S.E., 2009. Dysbindin-1 and Its Protein Family, in: Lajtha, A., Javitt, D., Kantrowitz, J. (Eds.), Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Schizophrenia. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 107–241.

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 Information Economics and Policy.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Zika Infections During Rio 2016 Olympic Games Could Create A “Full-Blown Global Health Disaster” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-infections-during-rio-2016-olympic-games-could-create-full-blown-global/ (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, 2008. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-09-91R). 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

Plosky, W.D., 2017. An Investment Case for Addressing Social Drivers of Structural Stigma and Discrimination Against Refugees in Resource-Poor Urban Areas (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Vecsey, G., 2012. In Hockey, Game 7 Is Different. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hannon, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Felzer and Brodsky, 2006; Hannon, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Felzer and Brodsky, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Büttner et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Economics and Policy
Abbreviation	Inf. Econ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0167-6245
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law