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

Masood, E., 2012. Arab liberals must stay in the game. Nature 488, 131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baumiller, T.K., Gahn, F.J., 2004. Testing predator-driven evolution with Paleozoic crinoid arm regeneration. Science 305, 1453–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davies, J.P., Chen, F.W., Ioannou, Y.A., 2000. Transmembrane molecular pump activity of Niemann-Pick C1 protein. Science 290, 2295–2298.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, K., Qiu, S., Wang, Y.V., Park, S.J.H., Mohns, E.J., Mehta, B., Liu, X., Chang, B., Zenisek, D., Crair, M.C., Demb, J.B., Chen, B., 2018. Restoration of vision after de novo genesis of rod photoreceptors in mammalian retinas. Nature 560, 484–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michael, E., Gillian, H., Stefan, K., Alex, L., 2012. Gramsci. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Boiko, A.V., 2012. Physics of Transitional Shear Flows: Instability and Laminar–Turbulent Transition in Incompressible Near-Wall Shear Layers, Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tschakert, P., Tutu, R., 2010. Solastalgia: Environmentally Induced Distress and Migration Among Africa’s Poor Due to Climate Change, in: Afifi, T., Jäger, J. (Eds.), Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–69.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Brain–Brain Interface Allows Humans To Control Cockroaches With Their Minds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. Federal Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s 1997 Award Selection (No. T-RCED-98-92). 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

Saha, P., 2008. Application hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable computing systems (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

Isherwood, C., 2016. A Jacobean Hit Man Who Doesn’t Want Cash. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Masood, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Baumiller and Gahn, 2004; Masood, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Baumiller and Gahn, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al., 2018)

About the journal

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