How to format your references using the Intellectual Economics citation style

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

Damasio, A. (2001). Fundamental feelings. Nature, 413(6858), 781.

A journal article with 2 authors

Westhof, E., & Massire, C. (2004). Structural biology. Evolution of RNA architecture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5693), 62–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cannistraci, C. V., Alanis-Lobato, G., & Ravasi, T. (2013). From link-prediction in brain connectomes and protein interactomes to the local-community-paradigm in complex networks. Scientific Reports, 3, 1613.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dang, S., Feng, S., Tien, J., Peters, C. J., Bulkley, D., Lolicato, M., Zhao, J., Zuberbühler, K., Ye, W., Qi, L., Chen, T., Craik, C. S., Jan, Y. N., Minor, D. L., Jr, Cheng, Y., & Jan, L. Y. (2017). Cryo-EM structures of the TMEM16A calcium-activated chloride channel. Nature, 552(7685), 426–429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tasman, A., Kay, J., & Ursano, R. J. (2013). The Psychiatric Interview. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Mobus, G. E. (2015). Principles of Systems Science (M. C. Kalton, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, H. (2012). Complying with Regulations. In K. Verghese, H. Lewis, & L. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Packaging for Sustainability (pp. 155–169). Springer.

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 Intellectual Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 10). 11 Surprising Things That Your Physical Appearance Says About You. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2002). School Finance: Per-Pupil Spending Differences between Selected Inner City and Suburban Schools Varied by Metropolitan Area (GAO-03-234). 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

Volle, M. (2017). Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Kelly, M. (1972, November 5). Underneath the Tire Treads. New York Times, GREATER NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE SHOWA15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Damasio, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Damasio, 2001; Westhof & Massire, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Westhof & Massire, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dang et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Intellectual Economics
ISSN (print)	1822-8011
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