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

Cumming BG (2002) An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate primary visual cortex. Nature 418:633–636

A journal article with 2 authors

Siomi H, Siomi MC (2015) RNA. Phased piRNAs tackle transposons. Science 348:756–757

A journal article with 3 authors

Taniyasu Y, Kasu M, Makimoto T (2006) An aluminium nitride light-emitting diode with a wavelength of 210 nanometres. Nature 441:325–328

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ruz JJ, Tamayo J, Pini V, et al (2014) Physics of nanomechanical spectrometry of viruses. Sci Rep 4:6051

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal R (2014) Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Greschke H, Tischler J (eds) (2015) Grounding Global Climate Change: Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Castrén MK (2014) Compression-Only CPR Versus CPR with Ventilations. In: Gullo A, Ristagno G (eds) Resuscitation: Translational Research, Clinical Evidence, Education, Guidelines. Springer, Milano, pp 41–45

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

Andrew E (2015) What Does Australia’s New 2030 Climate Target Mean For The Local Coal Industry? 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 (1982) Insights Into CETA’s In-School Youth Programs. 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

Sutherland KA (2009) The impact of early childhood programs on student achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Stewart JB (2016) Hedge Fund Math: Heads or Tails, They Win. 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 (Cumming 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cumming 2002; Siomi and Siomi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Siomi and Siomi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ruz et al. 2014)

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