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

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

Raffaelli, D., 2004. Ecology. How extinction patterns affect ecosystems. Science 306, 1141–1142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verheyden, J.M., Sun, X., 2008. An Fgf/Gremlin inhibitory feedback loop triggers termination of limb bud outgrowth. Nature 454, 638–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, C.H., Egli, M., Stewart, P.L., 2008. Structural insights into a circadian oscillator. Science 322, 697–701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coburn, P.S., Pillar, C.M., Jett, B.D., Haas, W., Gilmore, M.S., 2004. Enterococcus faecalis senses target cells and in response expresses cytolysin. Science 306, 2270–2272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro, L.A., Pagliaro, A.M., 2011. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grioli, G., Truesdell, C. (Eds.), 2011. Non-linear Continuum Theories, C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Boutet, A., Frey, D., Jégou, A., Kermarrec, A.-M., Ribeiro, H.B., 2013. FreeRec: An Anonymous and Distributed Personalization Architecture, in: Gramoli, V., Guerraoui, R. (Eds.), Networked Systems: First International Conference, NETYS 2013, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2-4, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 58–73.

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 Education.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Powdered Alcohol Is Now Legal In The USA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/powdered-alcohol-might-be-coming-summer/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1979. Issues and Problems Relating to United States-Japan Trade (No. 110554). 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

Mayner, S.W., 2017. Transformational leadership and organizational change during agile and devops initiatives (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Shear, M.D., Smale, A., 2017. Foreign Leaders Lament U.S. Withdrawal, but Say It Won’t Stop Climate Effort. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Raffaelli, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Raffaelli, 2004; Verheyden and Sun, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Verheyden and Sun, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Coburn et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics Education
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Econ. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1477-3880
Scope	Education