How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization citation style

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

Robock, A., 2011. Nuclear winter is a real and present danger. Nature 473, 275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge, W., Nelson, N., 2005. Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors. Science 308, 642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs, J.A., Nussenzweig, M.C., Nussenzweig, A., 2007. Chromatin dynamics and the preservation of genetic information. Nature 447, 951–958.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xie, J., Lu, J., Lin, J., Zhou, X., Xu, Q., Li, M., Zhang, J., 2014. Insights into transport velocity of colloid-associated plutonium relative to tritium in porous media. Sci. Rep. 4, 5037.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis, R.J., Sr., 2008. Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hazzan, O., 2014. Guide to Teaching Computer Science: An Activity-Based Approach, 2nd ed. 2014. ed. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, H., Kurata, Y., 2010. Modeling Ontological Concepts of Locations with a Heterogeneous Cardinal Direction Model, in: Bi, Y., Williams, M.-A. (Eds.), Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 4th International Conference, KSEM 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 1-3, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 4–15.

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 Economic Behavior and Organization.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Distant Species Produce Hybrid 60 Million Years After Their Split [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/distant-species-produce-hybrid-60-million-years-after-their-split/ (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, 2011. Polar Satellites: Agencies Need to Address Potential Gaps in Weather and Climate Data Coverage (No. GAO-11-945T). 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

Mazon, W.E., 2009. The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Feeney, K., 2008. Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robock, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Junge and Nelson, 2005; Robock, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Junge and Nelson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Behav. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0167-2681
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics