How to format your references using the Econometrica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Econometrica. 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

Zhang, X. (2014): “Plant science. Delayed gratification--waiting to terminate stem cell identity,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 343, 498–99.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grimmer, M. R., and J. F. Costello. (2016): “Cancer: Oncogene brought into the loop,” Nature, 529, 34–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, Y., G. W. Tyson, and E. F. DeLong. (2009): “Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column,” Nature, 459, 266–69.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Paik, D. H., I.-R. Lee, D.-S. Yang, J. S. Baskin, and A. H. Zewail. (2004): “Electrons in finite-sized water cavities: hydration dynamics observed in real time,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 306, 672–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence, R. (2008): Introductory Circuits, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Xu, J., G. Yu, S. Zhou, and R. Unland, eds. (2011): Database Systems for Adanced Applications: 16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011, International Workshops: GDB, SIM3, FlashDB, SNSMW, DaMEN, DQIS, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011. Proceedings, . Vol. 6637. Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceBerlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Koehl, M., M. Le Moal, and D. N. Abrous. (2011): “Stress Disorders,” in Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain II: Clinical Implications, ed. by Seki, T., K. Sawamoto, J. M. Parent, and A. Alvarez-Buylla. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 53–97.

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 Econometrica.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015): “Rare Night Parrot Caught And Tagged For The First Time In One Hundred Years,” IFLScience, IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-night-parrot-thought-have-been-extinct-one-hundred-years-caught-and-tagged/, Accessed 10/30/2018.

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. (1995): Schools and Workplaces: An Overview of Successful and Unsuccessful Practices,Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Griffin, M. G. (2008): “The Lived Experience of First Line Managers during Planned Organizational Change: A Phenomenological Study of One Firm in the Residential Construction Industry,”Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995): “The Neediest Cases; Chasing Her Dream Through Education,” New York Times, .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhang (2014)).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang (2014); Grimmer and Costello (2016)).

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

Two authors: (Grimmer and Costello (2016))
Three authors: (Shi, Tyson, and DeLong (2009))
4 or more authors: (Paik et al. (2004))

About the journal

Full journal title	Econometrica
Abbreviation	Econometrica
ISSN (print)	0012-9682
ISSN (online)	1468-0262
Scope	Economics and Econometrics