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
Lawler, A. (2000). SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION: A More Cautious NASA Sets Plans for Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5493), 915a–6a.
A journal article with 2 authors
Stagon, S. P., & Huang, H. (2013). Airtight metallic sealing at room temperature under small mechanical pressure. Scientific reports, 3, 3066.
A journal article with 3 authors
Evaristo, J., Jasechko, S., & McDonnell, J. J. (2015). Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow. Nature, 525(7567), 91–94.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Bogdan, P., Deasy, B. M., Gharaibeh, B., Roehrs, T., & Marculescu, R. (2014). Heterogeneous structure of stem cells dynamics: statistical models and quantitative predictions. Scientific reports, 4, 4826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Speight, J. G. (2005). Environmental Analysis and Technology for the Refining Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Stocchi, V., Feo, P. D., & Hood, D. A. (Eds.). (2007). Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life. Milano: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Siclari, D. (2016). Anti-Money Laundering EU Law and Network of Agents. In D. Siclari (Ed.), The New Anti-Money Laundering Law: First Perspectives on the 4th European Union Directive (pp. 45–56). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, May 14). Viagra Could Help Fight Malaria. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/viagra-could-help-fight-malaria/. 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. (2017). Immigration Benefits System: Significant Risks in USCIS’s Efforts to Develop its Adjudication and Case Management System (No. GAO-17-486T). 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
Mukherjee, N. (2003). Development of High Sensitivity Bending Mode Polymer Piezoelectric Devices for Inner Ear Implantation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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
de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, May 22). Huntsman Is Said to Be Close to Merger With Clariant. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Stagon and Huang 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Stagon and Huang 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Bogdan et al. 2014)

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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