LibGuides: Economics: Citing and Writing

How to cite your sources

The American Economic Review (AER) recommends the Chicago Manual of Style author-date style for all common publication types.

The Quick Guide will help get you started with basic publication types.
You can find the full-text of the style guide in print or online.
The American Economic Review (AER) gives sample references for item types not found in the Chicago style guide, including how to cite datasets.

Here are some other citation resources:

Citation Management Software
This is a Barnard Library guide to tools that help manage citations and build bibliographies, including Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
Quick Guide to Data Citation
This is a handy resource from the International Association for Social Science Information Services Technology (IASSIST).
Guidance on Data Citations
Guidance for authors wishing to create data and code supplements, and for replicators, from Social Science Data Editors
Sample paper in Chicago author-date style
This is a useful annotated sample paper from Purdue OWL.

Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers
From Plamen Nikolov (State University of New York Binghamton, IZA and Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science). Download the PDF file from this link.

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth; Gregory G. Colomb; Joseph M. Williams; Joseph Bizup; William T. FitzGerald
ISBN: 9780226239569
Publication Date: 2016-10-19
This is a great book to refer to at any stage in the research process.

Research log
Try using a research log to keep track of what you've searched and what you want to try next. You can copy this to your Google Drive and adjust it to suit your needs.

SAGE Research Methods Core
SAGE Research Methods provides a comprehensive picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as selected material from SAGE journals.