How to format your references using the Open Economies Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Open Economies Review. 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

Mejia R (2008) Taking the industry road. Nature 453:1138–1139

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf ET, Toon OB (2010) Fractal organic hazes provided an ultraviolet shield for early Earth. Science 328:1266–1268

A journal article with 3 authors

Hemingway J, Field L, Vontas J (2002) An overview of insecticide resistance. Science 298:96–97

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jarillo-Herrero P, Kong J, van der Zant HSJ, et al (2005) Orbital Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes. Nature 434:484–488

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sattler K (2005) Thermische Trennverfahren. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Bonesso S, Comacchio A, Pizzi C (eds) (2014) Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Feng X, Lau FCM, Gao D (2009) Cache Allocation in CDN: An Evolutionary Game Generalized Particle Model. In: Zhou J (ed) Complex Sciences: First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Revised Papers, Part 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 1226–1237

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 Open Economies Review.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Scientists Have Finally Solved 50-Year-Old Mystery Of Bizarre Signals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-finally-solve-50-year-old-mystery-atmospheric-echoes/. 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 (1990) Promising Practice: Private Programs Guaranteeing Student Aid for Higher Education. 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

Martinez C (2010) An after-school program at the middle school level for at-risk youth. 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

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mejia 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Mejia 2008; Wolf and Toon 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wolf and Toon 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jarillo-Herrero et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Open Economies Review
Abbreviation	Open Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0923-7992
ISSN (online)	1573-708X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics