How to format your references using the International Review of Applied Economics citation style

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

Carlson, Richard W. 2015. “Planetary Science: A New Recipe for Earth Formation.” Nature 520 (7547): 299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richmond, B. G., and D. S. Strait. 2000. “Evidence That Humans Evolved from a Knuckle-Walking Ancestor.” Nature 404 (6776): 382–385.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljas, Anders, Måns Ehrenberg, and Johan Åqvist. 2011. “Comment on ‘The Mechanism for Activation of GTP Hydrolysis on the Ribosome.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6038): 37; author reply 37.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shen, Jun-Xian, Albert S. Feng, Zhi-Min Xu, Zu-Lin Yu, Victoria S. Arch, Xin-Jian Yu, and Peter M. Narins. 2008. “Ultrasonic Frogs Show Hyperacute Phonotaxis to Female Courtship Calls.” Nature 453 (7197): 914–916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimberlin, Larry, Alex zur Linden, and Lynn Ruoff. 2016. Atlas of Clinical Imaging and Anatomy of the Equine Head. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Iyer, Lakshmi S., and Daniel J. Power, eds. 2015. Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support: Role of Business Intelligence and Social Media. Vol. 18. Annals of Information Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma, Yu-Fei, Hong Xia Li, and Pei Sun. 2007. “A Lightweight Agent Fabric for Service Autonomy.” In Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering: AAMAS 2007 International Workshop, SOCASE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007. Proceedings, edited by Jingshan Huang, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Zakaria Maamar, David Martin, Ingo Müller, Suzette Stoutenburg, and Katia P. Sycara, 63–77. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 International Review of Applied Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Humans May Have An In-Built GPS, Based On Discovery Of ‘Speed Cells’ In Rats.” 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. 2005. Aviation Fees: Review of Air Carriers’ Year 2000 Passenger and Property Screening Costs. GAO-05-558. Washington, DC: 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

Valenzuela, Brian D. 2013. “Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kramer, Andrew E. 2008. “In Georgia, a Claim Russia Is Making More Advances.” New York Times, August 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Carlson 2015; Richmond and Strait 2000).

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

Two authors: (Richmond and Strait 2000)
Three authors: (Liljas, Ehrenberg, and Åqvist 2011)
4 or more authors: (Shen et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Applied Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Appl. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0269-2171
ISSN (online)	1465-3486
Scope	Economics and Econometrics