How to format your references using the Review of Economics of the Household citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Economics of the Household. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Thompson, J. N. (2012). Evolution. The role of coevolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6067), 410–411.
A journal article with 2 authors
Weatheritt, R. J., & Babu, M. M. (2013). Evolution. The hidden codes that shape protein evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1325–1326.
A journal article with 3 authors
Solis, R. S., Haas, J., & Creamer, W. (2001). Dating Caral, a preceramic site in the Supe Valley on the central coast of Peru. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5517), 723–726.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Sancak, Y., Peterson, T. R., Shaul, Y. D., Lindquist, R. A., Thoreen, C. C., Bar-Peled, L., & Sabatini, D. M. (2008). The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1496–1501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
El-Haik, B., & Roy, D. M. (2005). Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Ebbin, S. A., Håkon Hoel, A., & Sydnes, A. K. (Eds.). (2005). A Sea Change: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
Remy, E., Mossé, B., & Thieffry, D. (2016). Boolean Dynamics of Compound Regulatory circuits. In A. Rogato, V. Zazzu, & M. Guarracino (Eds.), Dynamics of Mathematical Models in Biology: Bringing Mathematics to Life (pp. 43–53). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Economics of the Household.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2014, December 22). Wild Gorillas Observed Using Tools To Acquire Food For First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-gorillas-observed-using-tools-acquire-food-first-time/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2000). National Airspace System: Persistent Problems in FAA’s New Navigation System Highlight Need for Periodic Reevaluation (No. RCED/AIMD-00-130). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Russo, D. A. (2010). Cancer: Modeling the distribution of sizes of detectable metastases (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
Otis, J. (2017, October 21). For the First Time, She Hears the Birds Chirp And the Wind Whistle. New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Thompson 2012; Weatheritt and Babu 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Weatheritt and Babu 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Sancak et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleReview of Economics of the Household
AbbreviationRev. Econ. Househ.
ISSN (print)1569-5239
ISSN (online)1573-7152
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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