How to format your references using the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental 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

Ottino, J.M., 2004. Engineering complex systems. Nature 427, 399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Theis, T.N., Solomon, P.M., 2010. It’s time to reinvent the transistor! Science 327, 1600–1601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zwerger, M., Briegel, H.J., Dür, W., 2014. Hybrid architecture for encoded measurement-based quantum computation. Sci. Rep. 4, 5364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lanin, A.A., Fedotov, I.V., Fedotov, A.B., Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A., Zheltikov, A.M., 2013. The phase-controlled Raman effect. Sci. Rep. 3, 1842.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cuddy-Keane, M., Hammond, A., Peat, A., 2014. Modernism: Keywords. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Friman, B., Höhne, C., Knoll, J., Leupold, S., Randrup, J., Rapp, R., Senger, P. (Eds.), 2011. The CBM Physics Book: Compressed Baryonic Matter in Laboratory Experiments, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maskat, R., Paton, N.W., Embury, S.M., 2012. Pay-as-You-Go Ranking of Schema Mappings Using Query Logs, in: Bodenreider, O., Rance, B. (Eds.), Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 8th International Conference, DILS 2012, College Park, MD, USA, June 28-29, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–52.

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 Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Google Embarks On Ambitious Project To Change The Way We Diagnose Cancer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-embarks-ambitious-project-change-way-we-diagnose-diseases-cancer-0/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future (No. IMTEC-89-54). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cornelius, J., 2017. Five Minute Meditation Used to Impact Workplace Meetings (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Dewan, S., 2014. Mostly White Forces in Mostly Black Towns: Police Struggle for Racial Diversity. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ottino, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ottino, 2004; Theis and Solomon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Theis and Solomon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lanin et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Exp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2214-8043
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Psychology General Social Sciences