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

King, J. 2014. Climate science: A resolution of the Antarctic paradox, Nature, vol. 505, no. 7484, 491–92

A journal article with 2 authors

Verstreken, P. and Bellen, H. J. 2001. Neuroscience. The meaning of a mini, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 293, no. 5529, 443–44

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, F., Tillberg, P. W., and Boyden, E. S. 2015. Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 347, no. 6221, 543–48

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Movellan, J., and Sejnowski, T. J. 2009. Foundations for a new science of learning, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 325, no. 5938, 284–88

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sokhanvar, S., Dargahi, J., Najarian, S., and Arbatani, S. 2012. Tactile Sensing and Displays, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Deconinck, H. and Dick, E. (eds.). 2009. Computational Fluid Dynamics 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD, Ghent, Belgium, 10-14 July 2006, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Capitelli, M., Colonna, G., and D’Angola, A. 2012. Atomic Partition Function, pp. 61–78, in Colonna, G. and D’Angola, A. (eds.), Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics, 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

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. This Is How SpaceX Plans To Land On Mars, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-spacex-plans-land-mars/ (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. 1986. Computer Capacity: IRS Must Better Estimate Its Computer Resource Needs: U.S. Government Printing Office IMTEC-87-5BR

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Do, N. H. 2012. ‘An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills’, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Poniewozik, J. 2016. Reviving a Snow Globe Town and Its Comfortable Nostalgia, New York Times, C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (King, 2014; Verstreken and Bellen, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Verstreken and Bellen, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Meltzoff et al., 2009)

About the journal

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