How to format your references using the Journal of Asian Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Economics. 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

Mervis, J. (2004). Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5704), 2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ravi, M., & Chan, S. W. L. (2010). Haploid plants produced by centromere-mediated genome elimination. Nature, 464(7288), 615–618.

A journal article with 3 authors

Geremia, J. M., Stockton, J. K., & Mabuchi, H. (2004). Real-time quantum feedback control of atomic spin-squeezing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 270–273.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ji, Y., Zhang, Y., Gao, M., Yuan, Z., Xia, Y., Jin, C., Tao, B., Chen, C., Jia, Q., & Lin, Y. (2014). Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films. Scientific Reports, 4, 4854.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldmann, D. (2015). Social Movements For Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schmorrow, D. D., & Fidopiastis, C. M. (Eds.). (2013). Foundations of Augmented Cognition: 7th International Conference, AC 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8027). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Marsico, M., Distasi, R., Nappi, M., & Riccio, D. (2010). Multiple Traits for People Identification. In H. T. Sencar, S. Velastin, N. Nikolaidis, & S. Lian (Eds.), Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications (pp. 79–95). 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 Journal of Asian Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, May 23). Check Out These Awesome Pictures Of A Space Shuttle Tank’s Trip Through Los Angeles. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-these-awesome-pictures-space-shuttle-tank-s-trip-through-los-angeles/

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. (2015). Pedestrians and Cyclists: Cities, States, and DOT Are Implementing Actions to Improve Safety (GAO-16-66). 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

Minger, L. (2017). Examining Education Leadership Communication Practices around Basic and Advanced Skill Sets: A Multiple Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Hodgman, J. (2017, September 15). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis, 2004; Ravi & Chan, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ravi & Chan, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ji et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asian Economics
Abbreviation	J. Asian Econ.
ISSN (print)	1049-0078
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance