How to format your references using the International Economic Journal citation style

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

Duster, T. (2005). Medicine. Race and reification in science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1050–1051.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eichler, E. E., & Sankoff, D. (2003). Structural dynamics of eukaryotic chromosome evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 793–797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelly, B. P., Whiteley, A., & Tallmon, D. (2010). The Arctic melting pot. Nature, 468(7326), 891.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, G., Seiler, H., Wen, A., Zars, T., Ito, K., Wolf, R., Heisenberg, M., & Liu, L. (2006). Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain. Nature, 439(7076), 551–556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hill, R., & Solt, G. (2010). Engineering Money. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Petrosino, A. (Ed.). (2013). Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: 17th International Conference, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 8157). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakawa, M., & Nishizaki, I. (2009). Some applications. In I. Nishizaki & M. Sakawa (Eds.), Cooperative and Noncooperative Multi-Level Programming (pp. 181–237). Springer US.

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 International Economic Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 11). Dark Grape Compound May Help The Body Burn Fat. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dark-grape-compound-may-help-body-burn-fat/

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. (2003). Highway Safety: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs (GAO-03-474). 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

Robinson, L. M. (2001). Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, January 19). Starless Dreams. New York Times, C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duster, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Duster, 2005; Eichler & Sankoff, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Eichler & Sankoff, 2003)
Three authors: (Kelly et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Liu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	1016-8737
ISSN (online)	1743-517X
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance