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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Colman SM (2002) Paleoclimate. A fresh look at glacial floods. Science 296:1251–1252

A journal article with 2 authors

Blagosklonny MV, Pardee AB (2002) Conceptual biology: unearthing the gems. Nature 416:373

A journal article with 3 authors

Verbiscer AJ, Skrutskie MF, Hamilton DP (2009) Saturn’s largest ring. Nature 461:1098–1100

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Patil RA, Devan RS, Lin J-H, et al (2013) An efficient methodology for measurement of the average electrical properties of single one-dimensional NiO nanorods. Sci Rep 3:3070

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohanish RP, Greene SA (2005) Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dittmar T, Zänker KS (eds) (2011) Cell Fusion in Health and Disease, 1st edn. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tripathy BK, Sishodia MS, Jain S (2014) Societal Networks: The Networks of Dynamics of Interpersonal Associations. In: Panda M, Dehuri S, Wang G-N (eds) Social Networking: Mining, Visualization, and Security. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 101–127

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

Fang J (2015) Air Pollution Kills More Than Three Million People A Year. 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 (1991) Aviation Safety: Changes Needed in FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting Program. 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

Ravilla S (2013) Correlation between diabetes and periodontitis. 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

Mueller B, Rashbaum WK (2017) Before Times Sq. Crash, A String of Legal Issues And a Fall Into Paranoia. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colman 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blagosklonny and Pardee 2002; Colman 2002).

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

Two authors: (Blagosklonny and Pardee 2002)
Three or more authors: (Patil et al. 2013)

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