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

Check, E., 2007. Stem cells: the hard copy. Nature 446, 485–486.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stott, P.A., Thorne, P.W., 2010. How best to log local temperatures? Nature 465, 158–159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shuman, E.S., Barry, J.F., Demille, D., 2010. Laser cooling of a diatomic molecule. Nature 467, 820–823.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sato, J., Omori, T., Oikawa, K., Ohnuma, I., Kainuma, R., Ishida, K., 2006. Cobalt-base high-temperature alloys. Science 312, 90–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dickson, E.F.G., 2012. Personal Protective Equipment for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Eiter, T., Libkin, L. (Eds.), 2005. Database Theory - ICDT 2005: 10th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, January 5-7, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ledger, S., Vidovich, L., O’Donoghue, T., 2014. Case Study One: Satu International School (SIS), in: Vidovich, L., O’Donoghue, T. (Eds.), Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes: The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 85–107.

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. Secret Spaceplane Lands After 674 Days In Orbit [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1987. FAA Staffing: Air Traffic Controllers’ Work Load and Operational Performance (No. RCED-87-138FS). 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

Castaneda Martinez, N.E., 2013. Implementation of the Parent Partner Project to improve reunification rates in Sonoma County: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, M., 2002. Notes From the Underground: New Yorkers Share Their Subway Stories. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2007; Stott and Thorne, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stott and Thorne, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sato et al., 2006)

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