How to format your references using the Review of Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Political Economy (RPE). 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

Muramatsu, T. 2002. ‘Development. Carbohydrate recognition in spermatogenesis’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5552): 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuffey, K. M. and Marshall, S. J. 2000. ‘Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet’. Nature 404 (6778): 591–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen, V. Q., Co, C., and Li, J. J. 2001. ‘Cyclin-dependent kinases prevent DNA re-replication through multiple mechanisms’. Nature 411 (6841): 1068–1073.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Niemi, M. E. K., Martin, H. C., Rice, D. L., Gallone, G., Gordon, S., Kelemen, M., McAloney, K., McRae, J., Radford, E. J., Yu, S., Gecz, J., Martin, N. G., Wright, C. F., Fitzpatrick, D. R., Firth, H. V., Hurles, M. E., and Barrett, J. C. 2018. ‘Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders’. Nature 562 (7726): 268–271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill, D. and Fletcher, R. 2010. Normal Binocular Vision. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Konaté, D., ed. 2008. Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and e-Learning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Abbas, A. E., Hanson, I., and Pica, M. C. 2015. ‘Invasive Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis’. In Aortic Stenosis: Case-Based Diagnosis and Therapy, edited by A. E. Abbas, 55–69. London: Springer.

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 Political Economy.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2017. CT Scan Show’s Man’s Pancreas Caked In Calcium. IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ct-scan-shows-mans-pancreas-caked-in-calcium/.

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. Federal Research: Advanced Technology Program’s Indirect Cost Rates and Program Evaluation Status. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, RCED-93-221.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wasserman, M. M. 2017. Psychological Symptoms, Family Functioning, and Religious Coping in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Williams, J. 2017. ‘Of God and War’. New York Times, Sep 22, p. BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Muramatsu 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cuffey and Marshall 2000, Muramatsu 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cuffey and Marshall 2000)
Three or more authors: (Niemi et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Political Economy
ISSN (print)	0953-8259
ISSN (online)	1465-3982
Scope