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

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

Gunawardena, J., 2010. Systems biology. Biological systems theory. Science 328, 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob, L., Lum, L., 2007. Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease. Science 318, 66–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulme, M., O’Neill, S.J., Dessai, S., 2011. Climate change. Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding? Science 334, 764–765.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Passera, L., Aron, S., Vargo, E.L., Keller, L., 2001. Queen control of sex ratio in fire ants. Science 293, 1308–1310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke, W., Díez Muiño, R., 2013. Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

McCullough, D.R., Takatsuki, S., Kaji, K. (Eds.), 2009. Sika Deer: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Villacis, B., Carrillo, D., 2013. The Socioeconomic Paradox of Galapagos, in: Walsh, S.J., Mena, C.F. (Eds.), Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks & Perspectives, Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 69–85.

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 Development Economics.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Antibiotic Cow Farts Contain More Methane [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antibiotic-cow-farts-are-greenhouse-gassier-according-study/ (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, 1969. Review Of Status Of Development Toward Establishment Of A Unified National Communications System (No. B-166655). 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

Gonzalez, H.M., 2017. DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan (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

Wallace, A., 2014. At Last. New York Times MM44.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gunawardena, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gunawardena, 2010; Jacob and Lum, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Jacob and Lum, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Passera et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Development Economics
Abbreviation	J. Dev. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0304-3878
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Development