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

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

Check, E. (2004). Retraction signals end of cell-biology debate. Nature, 427(6975), 574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, D., & Huchard, E. (2014). Sexual conflict. The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6211), 841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cziczo, D. J., Thomson, D. S., & Murphy, D. M. (2001). Ablation, flux, and atmospheric implications of meteors inferred from stratospheric aerosol. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1772–1775.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baker, D., Pryce, G., Croxford, J. L., Brown, P., Pertwee, R. G., Huffman, J. W., & Layward, L. (2000). Cannabinoids control spasticity and tremor in a multiple sclerosis model. Nature, 404(6773), 84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruckmongathan, T. N. (2014). Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gill, T. L. (2016). Functional Analysis and the Feynman Operator Calculus. (W. W. Zachary, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaestel, M. (2006). Molecular Chaperones in Signal Transduction. In K. Starke & M. Gaestel (Eds.), Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease (pp. 93–109). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 World Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, September 21). People With ‘Obesity Gene’ Can Still Lose Weight. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1973). Management of the Overseas Dependents School System (No. B-131587). 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

Gjelaj Merturi, E. (2010). The Perceptions of Principal-Based Leadership Practices on Student Reading Achievement (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, June 27). Nestlé Plans for Buybacks And, Perhaps, Acquisitions. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2004; Lukas and Huchard 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lukas and Huchard 2014)
Three or more authors: (Baker et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of World Economics
Abbreviation	Rev. World Econ.
ISSN (print)	1610-2878
ISSN (online)	1610-2886
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance