How to format your references using the International Economics citation style

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

Kostelecký, V.A., 2014. Precision measurement: The magnetic proton. Nature 509, 571–572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Middelburg, J.J., Meysman, F.J.R., 2007. Ocean science. Burial at sea. Science 316, 1294–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shema, R., Sacktor, T.C., Dudai, Y., 2007. Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta. Science 317, 951–953.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nojiri, M., Koteishi, H., Nakagami, T., Kobayashi, K., Inoue, T., Yamaguchi, K., Suzuki, S., 2009. Structural basis of inter-protein electron transfer for nitrite reduction in denitrification. Nature 462, 117–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ng, K.K., 2009. Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Li, S., Wang, X., Okazaki, Y., Kawabe, J., Murofushi, T., Guan, L. (Eds.), 2011. Nonlinear Mathematics for Uncertainty and its Applications, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moulaert, F., Nussbaumer, J., 2005. Beyond the Learning Region: The Dialectics of Innovation and Culture in Territorial Development, in: Boschma, R.A., Kloosterman, R.C. (Eds.), Learning from Clusters: A Critical Assessment from an Economic-Geographical Perspective, The GeoJournal Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 89–109.

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 International Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Neil deGrasse Tyson To Host Late-Night Talk Show [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. DOE’s Laboratory Facilities (No. RCED-96-183R). 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

Moore, J., 2012. Recall after conscious sedation for gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures and its effect on patient satisfaction (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Pool or Gym? A Task Force Chooses Both. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kostelecký, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kostelecký, 2014; Middelburg and Meysman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Middelburg and Meysman, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nojiri et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Economics
ISSN (print)	2110-7017
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Economics, Econometrics and Finance