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

Herrling, Paul. 2007. “Patent Sense.” Nature 449 (7159): 174–175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodirsky, Benjamin L., and Alexander Popp. 2015. “Sustainability: Australia at the Crossroads.” Nature 527 (7576): 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verschuren, D., K. R. Laird, and B. F. Cumming. 2000. “Rainfall and Drought in Equatorial East Africa during the Past 1,100 Years.” Nature 403 (6768): 410–414.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jørgensen, René, A. Rod Merrill, Susan P. Yates, Victor E. Marquez, Adrian L. Schwan, Thomas Boesen, and Gregers R. Andersen. 2005. “Exotoxin A-EEF2 Complex Structure Indicates ADP Ribosylation by Ribosome Mimicry.” Nature 436 (7053): 979–984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, Helmut, Birgit Coleman, and Karen Hofmann. 2015. Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Klewes, Joachim, and Robert Wreschniok, eds. 2009. Reputation Capital: Building and Maintaining Trust in the 21st Century. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Coufal, Nicole, and Lauge Farnaes. 2011. “Anthracyclines and Anthracenediones.” In Cancer Management in Man: Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, Hyperthermia and Supporting Measures, edited by Boris R. Minev, 87–102. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “Astronomers Have Learned Some Pretty Crucial Things About Very Young Stars.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-learned-some-pretty-crucial-things-about-very-young-stars/.

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. Highway And Transit Investments: Options for Improving Information on Projects’ Benefits and Costs and Increasing Accountability for Results. GAO-05-172. 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

Ji, Jae Hwan. 2010. “Near-Field Characteristics of Wall Jets with Tabs.” 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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2003. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Army Diet Found Lacking.” New York Times, November 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herrling 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Herrling 2007; Bodirsky and Popp 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bodirsky and Popp 2015)
Three authors: (Verschuren, Laird, and Cumming 2000)
4 or more authors: (Jørgensen et al. 2005)

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