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

Loder N (2000) Unfavourable economics put postdocs across Europe under strain. Nature 407:427–429

A journal article with 2 authors

Lv X, Weng J (2013) Ternary composite of hemin, gold nanoparticles and graphene for highly efficient decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. Sci Rep 3:3285

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin Q, Jacobsen SB, Yamashita K (2002) Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites. Nature 415:881–883

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Müller CD, Falcou A, Reckefuss N, et al (2003) Multi-colour organic light-emitting displays by solution processing. Nature 421:829–833

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaschke M, Donnerhacke K-H, Rill MS (2014) Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

O’Campo P, Dunn JR (eds) (2012) Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kleanthous S, Christophorou C, Tsiourti C, et al (2016) Analysis of Elderly Users’ Preferences and Expectations on Service Robot’s Personality, Appearance and Interaction. In: Zhou J, Salvendy G (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging: Second International Conference, ITAP 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016 Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–44

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

Davis J (2016) Progress Made In Creating Babies With Three Biological Parents. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on Program’s Employment Objective. 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

Ramirez C (2017) A Policy Analysis: Assembly Bill 1421 or Laura’s Law. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Stewart JB (2017) Tiny School Outgains the Ivies. Here’s How. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Loder 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Loder 2000; Lv and Weng 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lv and Weng 2013)
Three or more authors: (Müller et al. 2003)

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