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

Cohen, J. (2000). EDUCATION: Gates Gives Cambridge a Rival to Rhodes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5491), 422a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Köhler, H.-R., & Triebskorn, R. (2013). Wildlife ecotoxicology of pesticides: can we track effects to the population level and beyond? Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 759–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runyon, J. B., Mescher, M. C., & De Moraes, C. M. (2006). Volatile chemical cues guide host location and host selection by parasitic plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1964–1967.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mauk, B. H., Clarke, J. T., Grodent, D., Waite, J. H., Jr, Paranicas, C. P., & Williams, D. J. (2002). Transient aurora on Jupiter from injections of magnetospheric electrons. Nature, 415(6875), 1003–1005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ronen, T. (2011). The Positive Power of Imagery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Baschieri, S. (Ed.). (2012). Innovation in Vaccinology: from design, through to delivery and testing. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujiyoshi, M., Fujiyoshi, A., Osawa, A., Kuroda, Y., & Sasaki, Y. (2014). Development of Synchronized CUI and GUI for Universal Design Tactile Graphics Production System BPLOT3. In K. Miesenberger, D. Fels, D. Archambault, P. Peňáz, & W. Zagler (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 18–25). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2014, November 21). SDSS1133: Odd Supernova Remnant or Homeless Supermassive Black Hole? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/sdss1133-odd-supernova-remnant-or-homeless-supermassive-black-hole/

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. (1998). Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains (AIMD-98-39). 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

Hongxia, D. (2005). Social Process of Environmental Risk Perception, Preferences of Risk Management and Public Participation in Decision Making: A Cross-Cultural Study Between the United States and China [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Dynarski, S. (2016, December 30). Free Markets Aren’t a Cure-All in Education. New York Times, BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen, 2000; Köhler & Triebskorn, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Köhler & Triebskorn, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mauk et al., 2002)

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