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

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

Briggs DEG (2010) Obituary: Harry Whittington (1916-2010). Nature 466:706

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang X-Q, Xu D (2002) Calculating forest biomass changes in China. Science 296:1359; discussion 1359

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao S, Li R, Chen M (2013) Detecting sedimentary cycles using autocorrelation of grain size. Sci Rep 3:1653

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wagner GP, Kenney-Hunt JP, Pavlicev M, et al (2008) Pleiotropic scaling of gene effects and the “cost of complexity.” Nature 452:470–472

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mason RP (2013) Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Terze Z (ed) (2014) Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (2012) O projektu META-NET. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (eds) The Slovene Language in the Digital Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–35

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 Economics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) US To Lift Ban On Creating Human-Animal Hybrids For Medical Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-to-lift-ban-on-creating-humananimal-hybrids-for-medical-research/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1998) Federal Research: Two Political Science Grants Awarded by the National Science Foundation. 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

Mahmud S (2017) Comparing the Performance of Bottom-Moored and Unmanned Surface Vehicle Towed Passive Acoustic Monitoring Platforms for Marine Mammal Detections. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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 C (2013) Mormon-Backed Mall Breathes Life Into Salt Lake City. New York Times B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Briggs 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Xu 2002; Briggs 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Xu 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wagner et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1865-1704
ISSN (online)	1863-4613
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance