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

Shelton JD (2011) HIV/AIDS. ARVs as HIV prevention: a tough road to wide impact. Science 334:1645–1646

A journal article with 2 authors

Brazeau MD, Friedman M (2015) The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates. Nature 520:490–497

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhurov V, Terzin T, Grbić M (2004) Early blastomere determines embryo proliferation and caste fate in a polyembryonic wasp. Nature 432:764–769

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dial OE, Ashoori RC, Pfeiffer LN, West KW (2007) High-resolution spectroscopy of two-dimensional electron systems. Nature 448:176–179

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway J (2009) Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Müller M (ed) (2016) Clinical Pharmacology: Current Topics and Case Studies, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Aucher G, Herzig A (2011) Exploring the Power of Converse Events. In: Girard P, Roy O, Marion M (eds) Dynamic Formal Epistemology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–74

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) Researchers Are Developing A Vaccine For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccine-help-ptsd/. 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 (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. 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

Hartley DL (2010) Transnational jazz and blues: Aural aesthetics and African diasporic fiction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kelly M (1992) Little Rock Hopes Clinton Presidency Will Put Its Dogpatch Image to Rest. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Shelton 2011; Brazeau and Friedman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brazeau and Friedman 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dial et al. 2007)

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