How to format your references using the Journal of Econometrics citation style

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

Wang, K., 2014. Sampling biases in datasets of historical mean air temperature over land. Sci. Rep. 4, 4637.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauert, C., Doebeli, M., 2004. Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift game. Nature 428, 643–646.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischle, W., Wang, Y., Allis, C.D., 2003. Binary switches and modification cassettes in histone biology and beyond. Nature 425, 475–479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kratchmarova, I., Blagoev, B., Haack-Sorensen, M., Kassem, M., Mann, M., 2005. Mechanism of divergent growth factor effects in mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Science 308, 1472–1477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, M.A., Froum, S.J., 2012. The Dentist’s Drug and Prescription Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Hinterdorfer, P., Oijen, A. (Eds.), 2009. Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics. Springer US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodet, X., Schwarz, D., 2007. Spectral Envelopes and Additive + Residual Analysis/Synthesis, in: Beauchamp, J.W. (Ed.), Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: The Sound of Music, Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 175–227.

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 Econometrics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Were Beethoven’s Masterpieces Influenced by a Cardiac Arrhythmia? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/were-beethovens-masterpieces-influenced-cardiac-arrhythmia/ (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, 2013. Public Transit: Transit Agencies’ Use of Contracting to Provide Service (No. GAO-13-782). 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

Matthews, L.K., 2016. The impact of trait displaced aggression and social support on cardiovascular reactivity (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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Fittingly, a Frank Finale for ‘Girls.’ New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hauert and Doebeli, 2004; Wang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hauert and Doebeli, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kratchmarova et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Econometrics
Abbreviation	J. Econom.
ISSN (print)	0304-4076
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Mathematics