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

Houghton J (2008) Meetings that changed the world: Madrid 1995: Diagnosing climate change. Nature 455:737–738

A journal article with 2 authors

Cress CD, Datta S (2013) Engineering. Nanoscale transistors--just around the gate? Science 341:140–141

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson JL, Kolmakova-Partensky L, Miller C (2010) Design, function and structure of a monomeric ClC transporter. Nature 468:844–847

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watkins DN, Berman DM, Burkholder SG, et al (2003) Hedgehog signalling within airway epithelial progenitors and in small-cell lung cancer. Nature 422:313–317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tyson H (2010) Microsoft® Word 2010 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Prieto VG (ed) (2015) Precision Molecular Pathology of Dermatologic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Avoine G, Lauradoux C, Martin T (2009) When Compromised Readers Meet RFID. In: Youm HY, Yung M (eds) Information Security Applications: 10th International Workshop, WISA 2009, Busan, Korea, August 25-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 36–50

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) Parents Are Freaking Out Because They Can’t Answer A 7-Year-Old Kid’s Exam Question. 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 (2010) Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress but Faces Challenges in Meeting the Statutory Mandate for Screening Air Cargo on Passenger Aircraft. 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

Peterson GG (2013) Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Leshy JD, Squillace M (2017) The Endangered Antiquities Act. New York Times A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Houghton 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Houghton 2008; Cress and Datta 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cress and Datta 2013)
Three or more authors: (Watkins et al. 2003)

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