How to format your references using the Structural Change and Economic Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Kleppner, D., 2008. Physics. A milestone in time keeping. Science 319, 1768–1769.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cooper, K.M., Kent, A.J.R., 2014. Rapid remobilization of magmatic crystals kept in cold storage. Nature 506, 480–483.
A journal article with 3 authors
Alexander, M.H., Capecchi, G., Werner, H.-J., 2002. Theoretical study of the validity of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the Cl + H2 --> HCl + H reaction. Science 296, 715–718.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Lu, X., Wetter, E., Bharti, N., Tatem, A.J., Bengtsson, L., 2013. Approaching the limit of predictability in human mobility. Sci. Rep. 3, 2923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Wegener, E., 2003. Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.
An edited book
Aschieri, P., 2009. Noncommutative Spacetimes: Symmetries in Noncommutative Geometry and Field Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Sarcar, P., Basu, S., Ghosh, A., 2015. Broadband Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antennas for K and EHF Bands, in: Maharatna, K., Dalapati, G.K., Banerjee, P.K., Mallick, A.K., Mukherjee, M. (Eds.), Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 29–37.

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 Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Blog post
Fang, J., 2015. Neanderthals Used Eagle Talons to Make Jewelry [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Space Shuttle: Costs for Hubble Servicing Mission and Implementation of Safety Recommendations Not Yet Definitive (No. GAO-05-34). 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
Luse, K.M., 2008. Invariants of knots, graphs, and Feynman diagrams (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
Leland, J., 2016. Chess Tournament Kicks Off With V.I.P. Treatment. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleppner, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cooper and Kent, 2014; Kleppner, 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Cooper and Kent, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleStructural Change and Economic Dynamics
AbbreviationStruct. Chang. Econ. Dyn.
ISSN (print)0954-349X
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics

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