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

Henrich J (2014) Psychology. Rice, psychology, and innovation. Science 344:593–594

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens RC, Wilson IA (2001) Tech.Sight. Industrializing structural biology. Science 293:519–520

A journal article with 3 authors

González MC, Hidalgo CA, Barabási A-L (2008) Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature 453:779–782

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hartig G, Churakov G, Warren WC, et al (2013) Retrophylogenomics place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch of anthropoids. Sci Rep 3:1756

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia JE (2011) Dynamic Economic Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Palmer MA, Zedler JB, Falk DA (eds) (2016) Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC

A chapter in an edited book

Saariluoma P, Cañas JJ, Leikas J (2016) Emotions, Motives, Individuals, and Cultures in Interaction. In: Cañas JJ, Leikas J (eds) Designing for Life: A Human Perspective on Technology Development. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 137–170

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

Carpineti A (2016) Scientists Have Broken A New Nuclear Fusion Record. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-have-broken-a-new-nuclear-fusion-record/. 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 (2010) Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to Respond to and Lessen Releases. 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

McPeek SE (2017) Religious Rhetoric and the Radio: The Sermons of Rev. Dr. Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, International Lutheran Hour Speaker, 1955-1985. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henrich 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Stevens and Wilson 2001; Henrich 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and Wilson 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hartig et al. 2013)

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