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

Wark D (2014) Particle physics: The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up. Nature 510:224–225

A journal article with 2 authors

Vijg J, Campisi J (2008) Puzzles, promises and a cure for ageing. Nature 454:1065–1071

A journal article with 3 authors

Grbic A, Jiang L, Merlin R (2008) Near-field plates: subdiffraction focusing with patterned surfaces. Science 320:511–513

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Noggle S, Fung H-L, Gore A, et al (2011) Human oocytes reprogram somatic cells to a pluripotent state. Nature 478:70–75

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van der Heide P (2014) Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Putinar M, Sullivant S (eds) (2009) Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Trobaugh JJ, Lowe M (2012) Moving Data. In: Lowe M (ed) Winning LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 57–73

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) Is Glass A Solid Or A Liquid? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/glass-solid-or-liquid/. 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 (2008) Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate. 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

Jenkins AK (2008) Satisfaction and organizational commitment of civilian engineers and scientists in United States naval acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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 (2016) Retirees Win Lengthy Pension Fight With Renco. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wark 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Vijg and Campisi 2008; Wark 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vijg and Campisi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Noggle et al. 2011)

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

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