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:

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

Mandavilli, A. (2004). Struggling to make an impact. Nature, 430(7002), 935.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill, H. S. C., & Jenner, F. E. (2012). The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts. Nature, 491(7426), 698–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ramer, M. S., Priestley, J. V., & McMahon, S. B. (2000). Functional regeneration of sensory axons into the adult spinal cord. Nature, 403(6767), 312–316.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schaller, E. L., Roe, H. G., Schneider, T., & Brown, M. E. (2009). Storms in the tropics of Titan. Nature, 460(7257), 873–875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R. (2014). Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

de Freitas, C. R. (2012). New Environmentalism: Managing New Zealand’s Environmental Diversity. (M. Perry, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wajnberg, E. (2010). Genetics of the Behavioral Ecology of Egg Parasitoids. In F. L. Consoli, J. R. P. Parra, & R. A. Zucchi (Eds.), Egg Parasitoids in Agroecosystems with Emphasis on Trichogramma (pp. 149–165). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 19). Russia And Europe Collaborate On A Joint Mission To The Moon. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2016). Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed (No. GAO-17-88). 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

Grantham, S. C. (2014). Dual Eligibles’ Experience of Care in North Carolina’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Goldstein, J. (2017, May 26). Asked to Reduce Prison Rape, Then Accused of Sexual Abuse. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mandavilli 2004; O’Neill and Jenner 2012).

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

Two authors: (O’Neill and Jenner 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schaller et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cultural Economics
Abbreviation	J. Cult. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0885-2545
ISSN (online)	1573-6997
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)