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

Gewin V (2005) Industry lured by the gains of going green. Nature 436:173

A journal article with 2 authors

Kreitzer AC, Malenka RC (2007) Endocannabinoid-mediated rescue of striatal LTD and motor deficits in Parkinson’s disease models. Nature 445:643–647

A journal article with 3 authors

Monthoux P, Pines D, Lonzarich GG (2007) Superconductivity without phonons. Nature 450:1177–1183

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jefferis GS, Marin EC, Stocker RF, Luo L (2001) Target neuron prespecification in the olfactory map of Drosophila. Nature 414:204–208

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaccari DA, Strom PF, Alleman JE (2005) Environmental Biology for Engineers and Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Buchanan MT, Gellel A-M (eds) (2015) Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Eskin I, Hormozdiari F, Conde L, et al (2013) eALPS: Estimating Abundance Levels in Pooled Sequencing Using Available Genotyping Data. In: Deng M, Jiang R, Sun F, Zhang X (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 17th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2013, Beijing, China, April 7-10, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 32–44

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

Carpineti A (2017) Nuclear Glass Helps Test How The Moon Formed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/nuclear-glass-helps-test-how-the-moon-formed/. 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 (1987) Highway Technology: The Structure for Conducting Highway Pavement Research. 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

Noll RT (2009) Physician acceptance of Computerized Physician Order Entry in outpatient settings: A quantitative analysis of family medicine within Maricopa County, Arizona. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Ratliff B (2017) Take the Familiar and Try to Add Adventure. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2005; Kreitzer and Malenka 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kreitzer and Malenka 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jefferis et al. 2001)

About the journal

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