How to format your references using the SERIEs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for SERIEs. 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

Bertola F (2002) Astronomy. Putting galaxies on the scale. Science 295:283–284

A journal article with 2 authors

Chan Y-HM, Marshall WF (2012) How cells know the size of their organelles. Science 337:1186–1189

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlin S, Bergman A, Gentles AJ (2001) Genomics. Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature 411:259–260

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Andersson M, Malehmir A, Troll VR, et al (2013) Carbonatite ring-complexes explained by caldera-style volcanism. Sci Rep 3:1677

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouvier J-M, Campanella OH (2014) Extrusion Processing Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Morrell PD, Popejoy K (eds) (2014) A Few of Our Favorite Things: Teaching Ideas for K-12 Science Methods Instructors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Biffi A, Visigalli I (2013) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Lysosomal Storage Disorders: Expected Benefits and Limitations. In: Boelens JJ, Wynn R (eds) Stem Cell Therapy in Lysosomal Storage Diseases. Springer, New York, NY, pp 127–138

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 SERIEs.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) The Actual Building Blocks of Planets Have Been Spotted for the First Time Ever. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/actual-building-blocks-planets-have-been-spotted-first-time-ever/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2002) Telecommunications: GSA Action Needs to Realize Benefits of Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program. 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

Shen F-Y (2009) A pedagogical and analytic comparison of Auguste Franchomme’s twelve Caprices, op. 7 and Alfredo Piatti’s twelve Caprices, op. 25. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Szirtes G (2016) Love and Violence. New York Times BR23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bertola 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bertola 2002; Chan and Marshall 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chan and Marshall 2012)
Three or more authors: (Andersson et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	SERIEs
Abbreviation	SERIEs (Berl)
ISSN (print)	1869-4187
ISSN (online)	1869-4195
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance