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:

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

Schiermeier, Q. (2003). Insurers left reeling by disaster year. Nature, 421(6919), 99.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schramke, V., & Allshire, R. (2003). Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5636), 1069–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sampson, S. D., Carrano, M. T., & Forster, C. A. (2001). A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Nature, 409(6819), 504–506.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, Y., Eremets, M., Oganov, A. R., Xie, Y., Trojan, I., Medvedev, S., et al. (2009). Transparent dense sodium. Nature, 458(7235), 182–185.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P. I. (2006). A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maji, P., Ghosh, A., Murty, M. N., Ghosh, K., & Pal, S. K. (Eds.). (2013). Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence: 5th International Conference, PReMI 2013, Kolkata, India, December 10-14, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8251). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wen, C.-K., Li, W., & Guo, H. (2015). Regulatory Components of Ethylene Signal Transduction. In C.-K. Wen (Ed.), Ethylene in Plants (pp. 73–92). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, June 16). What Would Happen If Every Single Volcano In The World Erupted At Once? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-would-happen-if-every-single-volcano-in-the-world-erupted-at-once/. 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. (1993). Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems (No. NSIAD-93-198). 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

Kim, B. (2013). Essays in the Dynamics Bayesian Models in Marketing (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, May 7). Sinclair Said to Be Near Deal for Tribune Media. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2003; Schramke and Allshire 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schramke and Allshire 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Economics of the Household
Abbreviation	Rev. Econ. Househ.
ISSN (print)	1569-5239
ISSN (online)	1573-7152
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Social Sciences (miscellaneous)