How to format your references using the Research in Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Economics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Burke, B., 2006. Cell biology. Nuclear pore complex models gel. Science 314, 766–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Terman, J.R., Kolodkin, A.L., 2004. Nervy links protein kinase a to plexin-mediated semaphorin repulsion. Science 303, 1204–1207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gillespie, A.R., Montgomery, D.R., Mushkin, A., 2005. Planetary science: are there active glaciers on Mars? Nature 438, E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Van Aken, B.B., Rivera, J.-P., Schmid, H., Fiebig, M., 2007. Observation of ferrotoroidic domains. Nature 449, 702–705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, K., 2017. Sustainable and Green Electrochemical Science and Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Müller, W.E.G., Grachev, M.A. (Eds.), 2009. Biosilica in Evolution, Morphogenesis, and Nanobiotechnology: Case Study Lake Baikal, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashar, N.G., Golwalkar, K.R., 2013. Innovations/Modifications in the technology for the manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, in: Golwalkar, K.R. (Ed.), A Practical Guide to the Manufacture of Sulfuric Acid, Oleums, and Sulfonating Agents. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–65.

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 Research in Economics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. The End Of Coconut Water? The World’s Trendiest Nut Is Under Threat Of Species Collapse [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Space Station: U.S. Life-Cycle Funding Requirements (No. T-NSIAD-98-212). 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

Roan, R., 2017. Depth and Digital in Conversation: Practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Directly With Video Game Avatars (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Goldstein, J., 2014. The Pickpocket’s Tale. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burke, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Burke, 2006; Terman and Kolodkin, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Terman and Kolodkin, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Van Aken et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Economics
Abbreviation	Res. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1090-9443
Scope	Economics and Econometrics