How to format your references using the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (JAAE). 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Rokas, A. ‘Genomics. Lining up to avoid bias’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319,5862(January 2008):416–417.
A journal article with 2 authors
Watanabe, R., and H. Noji. ‘Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation’. Scientific Reports 4(May 2014):4962.
A journal article with 3 authors
Harris, G. C., M. Wimmer, and G. Aston-Jones. ‘A role for lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward seeking’. Nature 437,7058(September 2005):556–559.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Schalch, T., S. Duda, D. F. Sargent, and T. J. Richmond. ‘X-ray structure of a tetranucleosome and its implications for the chromatin fibre’. Nature 436,7047(July 2005):138–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Sanchez, A., and B. Carro. Digital Services in the 21st Century. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017.
An edited book
Martin, D. K. (Ed.). Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes (Vol. 1). Boston, MA: Springer US. 2007.
A chapter in an edited book
Paloutzian, R. F. ‘The Bullet and Its Meaning: Forgiveness, Nonforgiveness, and Their Confrontation’. In R. F. Paloutzian (Ed.), Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building (pp. 71–80). New York, NY: Springer. 2010.

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 Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Blog post
Andrew, E. ‘Gene Used In Embryogenesis Can Repair Adult Tissue’. 2013, November 9. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-used-embryogenesis-can-repair-adult-tissue/ (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. Survey of the Readiness of Minuteman Missiles (No. LCD-80-102). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Shirley, A. Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. 2012.

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
Protess, B., and J. H. Davis. ‘Trump Vows Cuts in Wall St. Rules From Obama Era’. New York Times, p. A1. 2017, February 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rokas, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Rokas, 2008; Watanabe and Noji, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Watanabe and Noji, 2014)
  • Three authors: (Harris, Wimmer, and Aston-Jones, 2005)
  • 6 or more authors: (Schalch et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
ISSN (print)1074-0708
ISSN (online)2056-7405
Scope

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