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

Isselbacher, K. J. (2009). Retrospective. Paul C. Zamecnik (1912-2009). Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5958), 1359.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, J., & MacMillan, D. W. C. (2015). Alcohols as alkylating agents in heteroarene C-H functionalization. Nature, 525(7567), 87–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Popovych, O. V., Yanchuk, S., & Tass, P. A. (2013). Self-organized noise resistance of oscillatory neural networks with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Scientific Reports, 3, 2926.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hornstein, E., Mansfield, J. H., Yekta, S., Hu, J. K.-H., Harfe, B. D., McManus, M. T., Baskerville, S., Bartel, D. P., & Tabin, C. J. (2005). The microRNA miR-196 acts upstream of Hoxb8 and Shh in limb development. Nature, 438(7068), 671–674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doyle, J. F. (2005). Modern Experimental Stress Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gamble, A. (2013). Beginning Rails 4 (C. Carneiro & R. A. Barazi, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Du, S., Wu, W., Song, Y., Liu, X., & Zheng, J. (2014). Superconducting Magnet. In W. Wu & S. Du (Eds.), Tokamak Engineering Mechanics (pp. 159–201). 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 International Economic Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, June 10). Is Female Ejaculation Real? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-exactly-female-ejaculation/

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. (1994). European Aeronautics: Strong Government Presence in Industry Structure and Research and Development Support (NSIAD-94-71). 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

Lambert, M. (2015). Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Perspectives of Three Generations on Career Mobility [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, August 24). A Buzzkill of a Pot Comedy. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Isselbacher, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Isselbacher, 2009; Jin & MacMillan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jin & MacMillan, 2015)
Three authors: (Popovych et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hornstein et al., 2005)

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