How to format your references using the The Review of Black Political Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Review of Black Political Economy. 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

Neier R. Chemistry. A two-catalyst photochemistry route to homochiral rings. Science. 2014 Apr 25;344(6182):368–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiu C, Weliky M. Neuroscience. Synaptic modification by vision. Science. 2003 Jun 20;300(5627):1890–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finnegan NJ, Schumer R, Finnegan S. A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 10(4)-10(7) years. Nature. 2014 Jan 16;505(7483):391–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Day JJ, Upchurch P, Norman DB, Gale AS, Powell HP. Sauropod trackways, evolution, and behavior. Science. 2002 May 31;296(5573):1659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schroeder K, Thompson T, Frith K, Pencheon D. Sustainable Healthcare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Johnson GD. Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition. Patil GP, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Wood B. Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark. In: Fleagle JG, Gilbert CC, editors. Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 19–33.

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 Black Political Economy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Does Hair Change Colour And Turn Grey? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-hair-change-colour-and-turn-grey/

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. Protest of Air Force Contract Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jun. Report No.: B-177968.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson K. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

Grynbaum MM. Assessing The Intent In a Critique Of the Media. New York Times. 2017 Oct 12;A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neier 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chiu and Weliky 2003; Neier 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chiu and Weliky 2003)
Three or more authors: (Day et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Review of Black Political Economy
Abbreviation	Rev. Black Polit. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0034-6446
ISSN (online)	1936-4814
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Cultural Studies