How to format your references using the Portuguese Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Portuguese Economic Journal. 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

Sánchez-Bayo F (2014) Environmental science. The trouble with neonicotinoids. Science 346:806–807

A journal article with 2 authors

Lounis B, Moerner WE (2000) Single photons on demand from a single molecule at room temperature. Nature 407:491–493

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonderer LJ, Studart AR, Gauckler LJ (2008) Bioinspired design and assembly of platelet reinforced polymer films. Science 319:1069–1073

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Suh E-K, Yang A, Kettenbach A, et al (2006) p63 protects the female germ line during meiotic arrest. Nature 444:624–628

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle W (2017) Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Privett G (2013) The Constellation Observing Atlas. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Shen Y, Chen J, Huang X (2016) Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Gated Relevance Network for Paraphrase Identification. In: Lin C-Y, Xue N, Zhao D, et al. (eds) Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications: 5th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2016, and 24th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2016, Kunming, China, December 2–6, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 39–50

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 Portuguese Economic Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Enormous Meteor Caught On Camera In Bangkok. 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 (2017) District of Columbia Charter Schools: Multi-Agency Plan Needed to Continue Progress Addressing High and Disproportionate Discipline Rates. 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

Madigan JP (2008) Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Walsh MW (2012) Next Chicago School Crisis: Pension Fund. 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 (Sánchez-Bayo 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lounis and Moerner 2000; Sánchez-Bayo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lounis and Moerner 2000)
Three or more authors: (Suh et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Portuguese Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Port. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	1617-982X
ISSN (online)	1617-9838
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics and Econometrics