How to format your references using the Review of Economic Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Economic Design. 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

Muindi F (2014) Tell the negative committee to shut up. Science 345:350

A journal article with 2 authors

Dorin JR, Jackson IJ (2007) Genetics. Beta-defensin repertoire expands. Science 318:1395

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson NM, Donnelly CA, Anderson RM (2001) The foot-and-mouth epidemic in Great Britain: pattern of spread and impact of interventions. Science 292:1155–1160

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ling H-F, Gao J-F, Zhao K-D, et al (2005) Comment on “Molybdenum isotope evidence for widespread anoxia in mid-Proterozoic oceans.” Science 309:1017; author reply 1017

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank WL, Whittle DK (2010) Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nishino S, Sakurai T (eds) (2005) The Orexin/Hypocretin System: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Umezawa T, Ragamustari SK, Ono E, Yamamura M (2015) O-Methyltransferases Involved in Lignan Biosynthesis. In: Jetter R (ed) The Formation, Structure and Activity of Phytochemicals. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 99–114

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 Review of Economic Design.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Alien-Looking Insect Has Its Own Order. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alien-looking-insect-has-its-own-order/. 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 (1989) Transportation Trust Funds. 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

Blanchard EJ (2010) Legato trombone: A survey of pedagogical resources. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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) At Airline, A Pensions Compromise. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Muindi 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dorin and Jackson 2007; Muindi 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dorin and Jackson 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ling et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Economic Design
Abbreviation	Rev. Econ. Des.
ISSN (print)	1434-4742
ISSN (online)	1434-4750
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance