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

Stocker R. Marine microbes see a sea of gradients. Science. 2012 Nov 2;338(6107):628–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey S, Joshi A. Effects of constant immigration on the dynamics and persistence of stable and unstable Drosophila populations. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1405.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCulloh KA, Sperry JS, Adler FR. Water transport in plants obeys Murray’s law. Nature. 2003 Feb 27;421(6926):939–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gibson L, Lee TM, Koh LP, Brook BW, Gardner TA, Barlow J, et al. Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity. Nature. 2011 Sep 14;478(7369):378–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Denny HR, Butterworth SJ. A Guide to Canine and Feline Orthopaedic Surgery. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Wu X, Jain L, Graña M, Duro RJ, d’Anjou A, Wang PP, editors. Information Processing with Evolutionary Algorithms: From Industrial Applications to Academic Speculations. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Reifsnider K, Huang X. Engineering Durability of Micro-Miniature Fuel Cells. In: Kakaç S, Pramuanjaroenkij A, Vasiliev L, editors. Mini-Micro Fuel Cells: Fundamentals and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 75–86.

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. Breaking The Link Between A Conservative Worldview And Climate Skepticism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/breaking-link-between-conservative-worldview-and-climate-skepticism/

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. DOD Overseas Schools: Additional Assurances of Educational Quality Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: HRD-90-13.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boos AL. The post-abortion experience: A content analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Koblin J. ‘Westworld’ Creators Speak of Seasons, Spoilers and Patience. New York Times. 2016 Dec 5;C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dey and Joshi 2013; Stocker 2012).

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

Two authors: (Dey and Joshi 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gibson et al. 2011)

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