How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Policy Reform citation style

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

Powell, Kendall. 2007. “The Places in Between.” Nature 446 (7138): 944–945.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez, Pedro A., and M. S. Swaminathan. 2005. “Public Health. Cutting World Hunger in Half.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5708): 357–359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, Junil, Sang-Min Park, and Kwang-Hyun Cho. 2013. “Discovery of a Kernel for Controlling Biomolecular Regulatory Networks.” Scientific Reports 3: 2223.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mohammed, Omar F., Dina Pines, Jens Dreyer, Ehud Pines, and Erik T. J. Nibbering. 2005. “Sequential Proton Transfer through Water Bridges in Acid-Base Reactions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5745): 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin, Daniel W., and Bolivar A. Senior. 2009. Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chen, Mingsong. 2013. System-Level Validation: High-Level Modeling and Directed Test Generation Techniques. Edited by Xiaoke Qin, Heon-Mo Koo, and Prabhat Mishra. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bobodzhanova, Khursheda. 2012. “Food Safety Issues in Tajikistan.” In Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia, edited by Hami Alpas, Madeleine Smith, and Asylbek Kulmyrzaev, 31–42. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Economic Policy Reform.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Watch A Baby Elephant Fight Off 14 Lionesses.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-baby-elephant-fight-14-lionesses/.

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. 1987. Motor Vehicle Safety: A Review of the NTSB Report on Rear Seat Lap Belt Effectiveness. RCED-88-13. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Morrison, Gillian Kye. 2010. “Self-Reported, Interview-Assisted Diet Records Underreport Protein and Energy Intake in Maintenance Hemodialysis (MHD) Patients.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Hodgman, John. 2016. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, December 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2007; Sanchez and Swaminathan 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sanchez and Swaminathan 2005)
Three authors: (Kim, Park, and Cho 2013)
4 or more authors: (Mohammed et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Policy Reform
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Pol. Reform
ISSN (print)	1748-7870
ISSN (online)	1748-7889
Scope	Business and International Management General Economics, Econometrics and Finance