How to format your references using the Journal of Evolutionary Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 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

Gabuzda D (2014) Astrophysics: The MAD world of black holes. Nature 510:42–43

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman RL, Kelly JW (2011) Cell biology. Phosphatase inhibition delays translational recovery. Science 332:44–45

A journal article with 3 authors

Hurrell JW, Kushnir Y, Visbeck M (2001) Climate. The North Atlantic oscillation. Science 291:603–605

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bocquet N, Prado de Carvalho L, Cartaud J, et al (2007) A prokaryotic proton-gated ion channel from the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor family. Nature 445:116–119

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner D (2012) Trading ETFs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Köppl C, Manley GA, Popper AN, Fay RR (eds) (2014) Insights from Comparative Hearing Research. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Gaudioso V (2010) Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding. In: Brown T, Renow-Clarke B, Collins C, et al. (eds) Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 71–94

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 Evolutionary Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) El Gordo Galaxy Lives Up To Its Name. In: IFLScience. 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 (2012) Screening Partnership Program: TSA Should Issue More Guidance to Airports and Monitor Private versus Federal Screener Performance. 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

Archibald GA (2008) Regionalizing competitive talent: An exploratory study of the role of human capital management in the context of economic integration and labor mobility. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Witz B, Wagner J (2016) Shortening of Games Re-Enters G.M. Talks. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gabuzda 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wiseman and Kelly 2011; Gabuzda 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wiseman and Kelly 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bocquet et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Abbreviation	J. Evol. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0936-9937
ISSN (online)	1432-1386
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics