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

Peng, R.D., 2011. Reproducible research in computational science. Science 334, 1226–1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rotenberg, E., Yakir, D., 2010. Contribution of semi-arid forests to the climate system. Science 327, 451–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganem, N.J., Godinho, S.A., Pellman, D., 2009. A mechanism linking extra centrosomes to chromosomal instability. Nature 460, 278–282.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strand, A., Asami, T., Alonso, J., Ecker, J.R., Chory, J., 2003. Chloroplast to nucleus communication triggered by accumulation of Mg-protoporphyrinIX. Nature 421, 79–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka, H.J., 2010. Transitions in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Grabherr, S., Grimm, J.M., Heinemann, A. (Eds.), 2016. Atlas of Postmortem Angiography. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sindou, M., 2015. Is There a Place for Microsurgical Vascular Decompression of the Brainstem for Apparent Essential Blood Hypertension? A Review, in: Schramm, J. (Ed.), Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 42, Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–76.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Six Ancient Legends That Are Based On Real Events [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/six-ancient-legends-that-are-based-on-real-events/ (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, 2006. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety: Risk-Based Standards Should Allow Operators to Better Tailor Reassessments to Pipeline Threats (No. GAO-06-945). 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

Gamez, T.E., 2012. Preventing child maltreatment among children with non-resident fathers: 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

Rosenberg, M., Apuzzo, M., Schmidt, M.S., 2017. Mueller Pursues Flynn Documents At White House. 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 (Peng, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Peng, 2011; Rotenberg and Yakir, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rotenberg and Yakir, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Strand et al., 2003)

About the journal

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