How to format your references using the The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 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

Knudsen, Eric I. “Instructed Learning in the Auditory Localization Pathway of the Barn Owl.” Nature 417, no. 6886 (May 16, 2002): 322–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, William G., and Steven L. Goldstein. “Open-System Coral Ages Reveal Persistent Suborbital Sea-Level Cycles.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308, no. 5720 (April 15, 2005): 401–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lezec, Henri J., Jennifer A. Dionne, and Harry A. Atwater. “Negative Refraction at Visible Frequencies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5823 (April 20, 2007): 430–32.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lissy, N. A., P. K. Davis, M. Irwin, W. G. Kaelin, and S. F. Dowdy. “A Common E2F-1 and P73 Pathway Mediates Cell Death Induced by TCR Activation.” Nature 407, no. 6804 (October 5, 2000): 642–45.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McBee, Jim. Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Dimitrijević, Branka, ed. Innovations for Sustainable Building Design and Refurbishment in Scotland: The Outputs of CIC Start Online Project. Green Energy and Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Carr, David. “Personal and Professional Values in Teaching.” In International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing, edited by Terence Lovat, Ron Toomey, and Neville Clement, 63–74. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

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 European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. “Why Sex Gets Better In Older Age.” IFLScience. IFLScience, December 20, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-sex-gets-better-in-older-age/.

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. “Early Childhood Centers: Services to Prepare Children for School Often Limited.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 21, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flores, David. “The EastSide Café: A Liberated Learning Zone.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Wagner, James. “Latin, Country, Reggaeton: Great Range in Mets’ Playlists.” New York Times, September 2, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Hist. Econ. Thought
ISSN (print)	0967-2567
ISSN (online)	1469-5936
Scope	General Arts and Humanities History and Philosophy of Science Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)