How to format your references using the The Economic History Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Economic History Review (EHR). 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	Download the output style file
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

Egger, J. ‘Refinement-Cut: User-Guided Segmentation Algorithm for Translational Science’. Scientific Reports 4 (2014), p. 5164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Litchinitser, N.M. and J. Sun. ‘APPLIED OPTICS. Optical Meta-Atoms: Going Nonlinear’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (2015), pp. 1033–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oldroyd, G.E.D., M.J. Harrison, and U. Paszkowski. ‘Reprogramming Plant Cells for Endosymbiosis’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (2009), pp. 753–54.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Eubelen, M., N. Bostaille, P. Cabochette, A. Gauquier, P. Tebabi, A.C. Dumitru, M. Koehler, et al. ‘A Molecular Mechanism for Wnt Ligand-Specific Signaling’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 361 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sillar, K.T., L.D. Picton, and W.J. Heitler. The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape, (Chichester, UK, 2016).

An edited book

Tazreiter, C. Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific: Transnational Lives, Human Rights and State Control. Edited by Leanne Weber, Sharon Pickering, Marie Segrave, and Helen McKernan. 1st ed. 2016., Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security, (London, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Proctor, T. ‘The Development of Cyber Security Warning, Advice and Report Points’. in A. Jøsang and B. Carlsson, eds., Secure IT Systems: 17th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2012, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 31 – November 2, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012), pp. 61–72.

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 Economic History Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. ‘Here Are All Of The Harmful Effects Sugar Has On Your Body And Brain’. IFLScience, (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/here-are-all-of-the-harmful-effects-sugar-has-on-your-body-and-brain/.

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. ‘[Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan]’, (Washington, DC, 2 May 1994).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Eisenbeiser, C.K. Parents’ Experience of Involvement in the Lives of Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study, (Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2012).

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

Saslow, L. ‘Jones Inlet to Be Dredged Despite Money Dispute’. New York Times, 2007.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Economic History Review
ISSN (print)	0013-0117
ISSN (online)	1468-0289
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