How to format your references using the Cambridge Journal of Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cambridge Journal of Economics (CJE). 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	Download the output style file
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

Cao, Y. C. 2011. Materials science. Impurities enhance semiconductor nanocrystal performance, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 332, no. 6025, 48–49

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, M. M. and George, J. H. 2005. Exploring and engineering the cell surface interface, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 310, no. 5751, 1135–38

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack, C. C., Berezovskii, V. K., and Born, R. T. 2001. Dynamic properties of neurons in cortical area MT in alert and anaesthetized macaque monkeys, Nature, vol. 414, no. 6866, 905–8

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Kim, T.-T., Oh, S. S., Park, H.-S., Zhao, R., Kim, S.-H., Choi, W., Min, B., and Hess, O. 2014. Optical activity enhanced by strong inter-molecular coupling in planar chiral metamaterials, Scientific reports, vol. 4, 5864

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anaya-Lara, O., Campos-Gaona, D., Moreno-Goytia, E., and Adam, G. 2014. Offshore Wind Energy Generation, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Andreescu, T. 2005. 103 Trigonometry Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO Team, (Z. Feng, Ed.), Boston, MA, Birkhäuser

A chapter in an edited book

Bose, C. and Murray, R. 2014. Numerical Approximation of Conditionally Invariant Measures via Maximum Entropy, pp. 81–104, in Bahsoun, W., Bose, C., and Froyland, G. (eds.), Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures, New York, NY, Springer

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 Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. Bioluminescence In Fish Is Far More Widespread Than Previously Thought, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bioluminescence-in-fish-is-far-more-widespread-than-previously-thought/ (date last 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. 1991. Medical Residents: Options Exist to Make Student Loan Payments Manageable: U.S. Government Printing Office HRD-92-21

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas, E. M. 2016. ‘Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach’, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

(nyt), S. K. 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rare Praise On Chechnya, New York Times, A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cao, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cao, 2011; Stevens and George, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and George, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cambridge Journal of Economics
ISSN (print)	0309-166X
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