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

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

Neier, R., 2014. Chemistry. A two-catalyst photochemistry route to homochiral rings. Science 344, 368–369.

A journal article with 2 authors

White, R.J., Averner, M., 2001. Humans in space. Nature 409, 1115–1118.

A journal article with 3 authors

De Pontieu, B., Title, A., Carlsson, M., 2014. Eyeing the Sun. Probing the solar interface region. Introduction. Science 346, 315.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawano, R., Tsuji, Y., Sato, K., Osaki, T., Kamiya, K., Hirano, M., Ide, T., Miki, N., Takeuchi, S., 2013. Automated parallel recordings of topologically identified single ion channels. Sci. Rep. 3, 1995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pascoe, N., 2011. Reliability Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zhang, D., Portmann, M., Tan, A.-H., Indulska, J. (Eds.), 2009. Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 6th International Conference, UIC 2009, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-9, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lakshmikantham, V., Leela, S., Martynyuk, A.A., 2015. Stability In The Models of Real World Phenomena, in: Leela, S., Martynyuk, A.A. (Eds.), Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems, Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 253–309.

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 Comparative Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The African Snakebite ‘Crisis’ Is Nothing New: We’ve Been Worried About Antivenom For Decades [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, 1990. Aviation: FAA’s Use and Management of Communications Resources (No. IMTEC-90-8). 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

Castro, R., 2012. Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance (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

Vecsey, G., 2011. As Storm Exits, Paths Lead to Open. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neier, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Neier, 2014; White and Averner, 2001).

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

Two authors: (White and Averner, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kawano et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Economics
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0147-5967
Scope	Economics and Econometrics