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

Maddox J (2003) Obituary: Edward Teller (1908-2003). Nature 425:362–363

A journal article with 2 authors

Webby RJ, Webster RG (2003) Are we ready for pandemic influenza? Science 302:1519–1522

A journal article with 3 authors

Mooney H, Cropper A, Reid W (2005) Confronting the human dilemma. Nature 434:561–562

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zurbuchen TH, Raines JM, Slavin JA, et al (2011) MESSENGER observations of the spatial distribution of planetary ions near Mercury. Science 333:1862–1865

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips JJ, Phillips P, Pulliam A (2014) Measuring ROI in Environment, Health, and Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Weible CM, Heikkila T, Ingold K, Fischer M (eds) (2016) Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing: Comparing Coalition Politics in North America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Abbas S, Benchohra M (2015) Perturbed Partial Functional Evolution Equations. In: Benchohra M (ed) Advanced Functional Evolution Equations and Inclusions. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–112

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

Andrew E (2016) New Technology Can Be The Difference Between Life And Death In A Disaster. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-technology-can-be-difference-between-life-and-death-disaster/. 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 (1995) Combined Fund Update. 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

Huang Y (2017) Optimal control of heat engines in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Gordon MR, Simons M (2017) War Crimes Office May Be Shuttered As Tillerson Reorganizes State Dept. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maddox 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Maddox 2003; Webby and Webster 2003).

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

Two authors: (Webby and Webster 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zurbuchen et al. 2011)

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

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