How to format your references using the Italian Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Italian Economic Journal. 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

Baker M (2012) Functional genomics: The changes that count. Nature 482:257, 259–62

A journal article with 2 authors

Lutz W, Kc S (2011) Global human capital: integrating education and population. Science 333:587–592

A journal article with 3 authors

George AM, Iñiguez J, Bellaiche L (2001) Anomalous properties in ferroelectrics induced by atomic ordering. Nature 413:54–57

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yin H, Pruyne D, Huffaker TC, Bretscher A (2000) Myosin V orientates the mitotic spindle in yeast. Nature 406:1013–1015

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rhee MY (2013) Wireless Mobile Internet Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Satapathy SC, Udgata SK, Biswal BN (eds) (2014) Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kinsley H, McGugan W (2015) Creating Visuals. In: McGugan W (ed) Beginning Python Games Development: With Pygame. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 61–81

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 Italian Economic Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) These Creepy X-Rays Will Make You Look At People In A Whole New Light. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-creepy-x-rays-will-make-you-look-people-whole-new-light/. 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

Rodriguez SG (2010) Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284. 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

Shpigel B (2017) A Familiar Ring. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lutz and Kc 2011; Baker 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lutz and Kc 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Italian Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Ital. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	2199-322X
ISSN (online)	2199-3238
Scope

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