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

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

Kaiser, D., 2015. History: From blackboards to bombs. Nature 523, 523–525.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe, R., Noji, H., 2014. Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation. Sci. Rep. 4, 4962.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Z., Marsiglio, F., Carbotte, J.P., 2013. Vanishing of interband light absorption in a persistent spin helix state. Sci. Rep. 3, 2828.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

White, R.M., Cech, J., Ratanasirintrawoot, S., Lin, C.Y., Rahl, P.B., Burke, C.J., Langdon, E., Tomlinson, M.L., Mosher, J., Kaufman, C., Chen, F., Long, H.K., Kramer, M., Datta, S., Neuberg, D., Granter, S., Young, R.A., Morrison, S., Wheeler, G.N., Zon, L.I., 2011. DHODH modulates transcriptional elongation in the neural crest and melanoma. Nature 471, 518–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, P.B., 2017. Modern Spain. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

García-Moncó, J.C. (Ed.), 2014. CNS Infections: A Clinical Approach. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Jordan, L., Greyling, P., 2011. Embedding Lua in Android Applications, in: Greyling, P. (Ed.), Practical Android Projects. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 155–192.

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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. 2015’s Recording-Breaking Temperatures Will Be “New Normal” Very Soon [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/2015s-recordingbreaking-temperatures-will-be-new-normal-very-soon/ (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, 1993. School Construction: Sallie Mae Financing Activities (No. HRD-93-61). 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

Powers, D.L., 2010. Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind on classroom instruction: A cross case analysis applying Dewey’s theory of instructional methods (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Justices Stay Execution, A Signal to Lower Courts. 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 (Kaiser, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser, 2015; Watanabe and Noji, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Watanabe and Noji, 2014)
Three or more authors: (White et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Economic Dynamics
Abbreviation	Rev. Econ. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1094-2025
Scope	Economics and Econometrics