How to format your references using the Journal of Bioeconomics citation style

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

Weidemüller, M. (2013). Quantum physics: spooky action gets collective. Nature, 498(7455), 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belkaid, Y., & Segre, J. A. (2014). Dialogue between skin microbiota and immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6212), 954–959.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irwin, D. E., Bensch, S., & Price, T. D. (2001). Speciation in a ring. Nature, 409(6818), 333–337.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Muttoni, G., Erba, E., Kent, D. V., & Bachtadse, V. (2005). Mesozoic Alpine facies deposition as a result of past latitudinal plate motion. Nature, 434(7029), 59–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot, G., La Borderie, C., Reess, T., Chen, W., Maurel, O., Rey-Berbeder, F., & de Ferron, A. (2016). Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vujičić, M., & Sanderson, J. (Eds.). (2008). Linear Algebra Thoroughly Explained. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Novak, J. H., Kasera, S. K., & Guan, Y. (2016). Crytpo-Based Methods and Fingerprints. In C. Wang, R. M. Gerdes, Y. Guan, & S. K. Kasera (Eds.), Digital Fingerprinting (pp. 39–68). New York, NY: 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 Bioeconomics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 26). Should A Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers In A “Greater Good” Scenario? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-self-driving-car-be-programmed-kill-its-passengers-greater-good-scenario/. 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. (1987). ADP Budget: Analysis of SSA’s Fiscal Year 1988 Information Technology Systems Request (No. IMTEC-87-37). Washington, DC: 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

Johnson, A. S. (2017). Fatigue Behavior and Microstructure of Direct Laser Deposited Inconel 718 Alloy (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, November 21). Justices Will Decide if Handgun Kept at Home Is Individual Right. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weidemüller 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Belkaid and Segre 2014; Weidemüller 2013).

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

Two authors: (Belkaid and Segre 2014)
Three or more authors: (Muttoni et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Bioeconomics
Abbreviation	J. Bioecon.
ISSN (print)	1387-6996
ISSN (online)	1573-6989
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Geography, Planning and Development