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

Appelbaum FR. Retrospective. E. Donnall Thomas (1920-2012). Science. 2012 Nov 30;338(6111):1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Divakaruni AS, Murphy AN. Cell biology. A mitochondrial mystery, solved. Science. 2012 Jul 6;337(6090):41–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santiago J, Henzler C, Hothorn M. Molecular mechanism for plant steroid receptor activation by somatic embryogenesis co-receptor kinases. Science. 2013 Aug 23;341(6148):889–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen X, Li Y, Lin Q, Wang Y, Sun H, Wang J, et al. Tea polyphenols induced apoptosis of breast cancer cells by suppressing the expression of Survivin. Sci. Rep. 2014 Mar 20;4:4416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Overhauser A. Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Aldashev A, Naeije R, editors. Problems of High Altitude Medicine and Biology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen D, Lin C. Crystal Growth and Characterization of NaxCoO2 and NaxCoO2·yH2O. In: Lin C, Maljuk A, Zhou F, editors. Growth and Characterization of Bulk Superconductor Material. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 115–42.

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 D. Using Electricity, Not Molecules, To Switch Cells On And Off. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: RCED-00-58.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barajas D. The marginalization of Zitkala-Ša and Wendy Rose [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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 J. Cabrera Puts End to Wild Game With 1 1th-Inning Homer. New York Times. 2016 Sep 23;B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Appelbaum 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Appelbaum 2012; Divakaruni and Murphy 2012).

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

Two authors: (Divakaruni and Murphy 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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