How to format your references using the The Review of Austrian Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Review of Austrian Economics. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Cravens, T. E. (2002). X-ray emission from comets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1042–1045.
A journal article with 2 authors
Diaz, R. E., & Sebastian, T. (2013). Electromagnetic limits to radiofrequency (RF) neuronal telemetry. Scientific reports, 3, 3535.
A journal article with 3 authors
Scholz, M., Lo, C.-C., & Chain, P. S. G. (2014). Improved assemblies using a source-agnostic pipeline for MetaGenomic Assembly by Merging (MeGAMerge) of contigs. Scientific reports, 4, 6480.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Zurbuchen, M. A., Lake, M. P., Kohan, S. A., Leung, B., & Bouchard, L.-S. (2013). Nanodiamond landmarks for subcellular multimodal optical and electron imaging. Scientific reports, 3, 2668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Kulkarni, S., & Harman, G. (2011). An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Basili, V. R., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., & Selby, R. W. (Eds.). (2007). Empirical Software Engineering Issues. Critical Assessment and Future Directions: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 26-30, 2006. Revised Papers (Vol. 4336). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Nikolopoulos, S., Giannakidou, E., Kompatsiaris, I., Patras, I., & Vakali, A. (2011). Combining Multi-modal Features for Social Media Analysis. In S. C. H. Hoi, J. Luo, S. Boll, D. Xu, R. Jin, & I. King (Eds.), Social Media Modeling and Computing (pp. 71–96). London: Springer.

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 Review of Austrian Economics.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, February 20). Eye Tracking Is The Next Frontier Of Human-Computer Interaction. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/eye-tracking-next-frontier-human-computer-interaction/. Accessed 30 October 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). Transit Rail: Potential Rail Car Cost-Saving Strategies Exist (No. GAO-10-730). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Wright, J. L. (2015). Shade Tolerance and Physiological Response to Light Regime of the Invasive Species Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle) (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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
Vecsey, G. (2010, August 19). Pioneers Continue To Shepherd Women’s Basketball. New York Times, p. B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cravens 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cravens 2002; Diaz and Sebastian 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Diaz and Sebastian 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Zurbuchen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleThe Review of Austrian Economics
AbbreviationRev. Austrian Econ.
ISSN (print)0889-3047
ISSN (online)1573-7128
ScopeGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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