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

Surani MA (2001) Reprogramming of genome function through epigenetic inheritance. Nature 414:122–128

A journal article with 2 authors

Lumpkin EA, Caterina MJ (2007) Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin. Nature 445:858–865

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi F, Matsushima M, Honkura Y (2005) Simulations of a quasi-Taylor state geomagnetic field including polarity reversals on the Earth Simulator. Science 309:459–461

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Toga T, Kuraoka I, Watanabe S, et al (2014) Fluorescence detection of cellular nucleotide excision repair of damaged DNA. Sci Rep 4:5578

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pratt TH (2010) Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Arai T, Harino H, Ohji M, Langston WJ (eds) (2009) Ecotoxicology of Antifouling Biocides. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

He Y (2013) Genome-Based Computational Vaccine Discovery by Reverse Vaccinology. In: Flower DR, Perrie Y (eds) Immunomic Discovery of Adjuvants and Candidate Subunit Vaccines. Springer, New York, NY, pp 91–104

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

Hale T (2016) The Gender Gap Of Alcohol Consumption Has Almost Disappeared. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-gender-gap-of-alcohol-consumption-has-almost-disappeared/. 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 (2009) Technology Transfer: Clearer Priorities and Greater Use of Innovative Approaches Could Increase the Effectiveness of Technology Transfer at Department of Energy Laboratories. 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

Yendes DL (2010) Remnants of Life. 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

Haberman M, Thrush G, Schmidt MS, Baker P (2017) How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in Firing. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Surani 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Surani 2001; Lumpkin and Caterina 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lumpkin and Caterina 2007)
Three or more authors: (Toga et al. 2014)

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