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

Diebold, Alain C. 2005. “Applied Physics. Subsurface Imaging with Scanning Ultrasound Holography.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5745): 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andreasen, Rasmus, and Mukul Sharma. 2009. “Comment on ‘Neodymium-142 Evidence for Hadean Mafic Crust.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5938): 267; author reply 267.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, Paige M., Sergey Gavrilets, and William R. Rice. 2006. “Sexual Conflict via Maternal-Effect Genes in ZW Species.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5770): 73.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Willingham, A. T., A. P. Orth, S. Batalov, E. C. Peters, B. G. Wen, P. Aza-Blanc, J. B. Hogenesch, and P. G. Schultz. 2005. “A Strategy for Probing the Function of Noncoding RNAs Finds a Repressor of NFAT.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5740): 1570–1573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick, James B. 2012. Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Makkar, Harinder P. S., and Christopher S. McSweeney, eds. 2005. Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Meinel, Felix G., Long Jiang Zhang, and U. Joseph Schoepf. 2015. “Dual Energy CT in Chest Tumors.” In Dual Energy CT in Oncology, edited by Carlo N. De Cecco, Andrea Laghi, U. Joseph Schoepf, and Felix G. Meinel, 41–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, Janet. 2014. “World’s Second Largest Impact Crater Was Made by a Comet.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/worlds-second-largest-impact-crater-was-made-comet/.

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. 2008. Digital Television Transition: Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program Is Under Way, but Preparedness to Manage an Increase in Subsidy Demand Is Unclear. GAO-08-1040. 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

Ithier-Guzman, Warner. 2010. “Assessing the Ability of Soils and Sediment to Adsorb and Retain Cesium-137 in Puerto Rico.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Belson, Ken, and Mary Pilon. 2012. “Marathon Is Set to Go On, Stirring Debate.” New York Times, October 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diebold 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Diebold 2005; Andreasen and Sharma 2009).

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

Two authors: (Andreasen and Sharma 2009)
Three authors: (Miller, Gavrilets, and Rice 2006)
4 or more authors: (Willingham 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