How to format your references using the The Annals of Regional Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Annals of Regional Science. 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

Bray D (2003) Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science 301:1864–1865

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez A, Golding I (2013) Genetic determinants and cellular constraints in noisy gene expression. Science 342:1188–1193

A journal article with 3 authors

Persha L, Agrawal A, Chhatre A (2011) Social and ecological synergy: local rulemaking, forest livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation. Science 331:1606–1608

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhou J-J, Feng W, Zhang Y, et al (2014) Engineering topological surface states and giant Rashba spin splitting in BiTeI/Bi2Te3 heterostructures. Sci Rep 4:3841

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank WL, Whittle DK (2010) Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rojas OJ (ed) (2016) Cellulose Chemistry and Properties: Fibers, Nanocelluloses and Advanced Materials, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Huang Y, Tan T (2014) Experimental Study of Feature Coding. In: Tan T (ed) Feature Coding for Image Representation and Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–45

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 The Annals of Regional Science.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Transparent Brains Illuminate The Neuronal Roots Of Pleasure And Fear. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/transparent-brains-illuminate-the-neuronal-roots-of-pleasure-and-fear/. 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 (2016) Federal Air Marshal Service: Actions Needed to Better Incorporate Risk in Deployment Strategy. 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

Gardner RD (2010) A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Goldberg S (2017) The town where mercury still rises. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bray 2003; Sanchez and Golding 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sanchez and Golding 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Annals of Regional Science
Abbreviation	Ann. Reg. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0570-1864
ISSN (online)	1432-0592
Scope	General Environmental Science General Social Sciences