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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
El-Awady, N. (2009). Science journalism: The Arab boom. Nature, 459(7250), 1057.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gibson, B. K., & Flynn, C. (2001). White dwarfs and dark matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5525), 2211.
A journal article with 3 authors
Damasceno, P. F., Engel, M., & Glotzer, S. C. (2012). Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6093), 453–457.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Santiago, M. L., Montano, M., Benitez, R., Messer, R. J., Yonemoto, W., Chesebro, B., et al. (2008). Apobec3 encodes Rfv3, a gene influencing neutralizing antibody control of retrovirus infection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5894), 1343–1346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Weller, R. B., Hunter, H. J. A., & Mann, M. W. (2014). Clinical Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Korach, K. S., & Wintermantel, T. (Eds.). (2007). Tissue-Specific Estrogen Action: Novel Mechanisms, Novel Ligands, Novel Therapies (Vol. 2006/1). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Chibbaro, S., Rondoni, L., & Vulpiani, A. (2014). From Microscopic Reversibility to Macroscopic Irreversibility. In L. Rondoni & A. Vulpiani (Eds.), Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline (pp. 71–97). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Cultural Economics.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2015, March 23). Extremely Long Solar Filament Creates a Big Frown on the Sun. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/extremely-long-solar-filament-creates-big-frown-sun/. 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. (1995). Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century (No. T-HEHS-95-127). 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
Pan, S. (2014). Cybersecurity testing and intrusion detection for cyber-physical power systems (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
Hollander, S. (2000, June 19). On Way to Rout, Liberty Wins at the Free-Throw Line. New York Times, p. D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (El-Awady 2009).
This sentence cites two references (El-Awady 2009; Gibson and Flynn 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Gibson and Flynn 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Santiago et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Cultural Economics
AbbreviationJ. Cult. Econ.
ISSN (print)0885-2545
ISSN (online)1573-6997
ScopeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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