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

Eldridge, J.J., 2014. Astrophysics: Windy stars that go with a bang. Nature 509, 431–432.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilhite, A.W., Fong, E.A., 2012. Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 335, 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janasek, D., Franzke, J., Manz, A., 2006. Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature 442, 374–380.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moon, R.T., Bowerman, B., Boutros, M., Perrimon, N., 2002. The promise and perils of Wnt signaling through beta-catenin. Science 296, 1644–1646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J.J., Brantley, W., Phillips, P.P., 2011. Project Management ROI. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sharpe, H., 2015. Embodied Relating and Transformation: Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling, Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Gehrlein, W.V., Lepelley, D., 2011. Condorcet Efficiency and Social Homogeneity, in: Lepelley, D. (Ed.), Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence: The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules, Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 157–198.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Doctors Prescribe More Antibiotics As Day Wears On [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2015. Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education (No. GAO-15-539T). 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

Gerhart, T., 2013. Convex optimization techniques and their application in hyperspectral video processing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rockwell, J., 2017. He Put Brooklyn on the Map. New York Times AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eldridge, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Eldridge, 2014; Wilhite and Fong, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wilhite and Fong, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Moon et al., 2002)

About the journal

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