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

Bohannon, J., 2009. The Gonzo Scientist. Do scientists like green porno? Science 325, 1620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doubleday, R., Wilsdon, J., 2012. Science policy: Beyond the great and good. Nature 485, 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, J., Shen, L., Zheng, D., 2014. Association between vitamin C intake and lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6161.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chakraborty, S., Ahmed, M., Jackson, T.L., Thiemens, M.H., 2008. Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO. Science 321, 1328–1331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossiter, A., 2008. Professional Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Raghukumar, C. (Ed.), 2012. Biology of Marine Fungi, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiser, O., Brazda, V., 2016. Experimental Validation of FSO Channel Models, in: Uysal, M., Capsoni, C., Ghassemlooy, Z., Boucouvalas, A., Udvary, E. (Eds.), Optical Wireless Communications: An Emerging Technology, Signals and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 69–86.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Frances Kelsey, Doctor Who Saved The U.S. From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/frances-kelsey-who-saved-us-thalidomide-dies-101/ (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, 2010. Public Transportation: Federal Role in Value Capture Strategies for Transit Is Limited, but Additional Guidance Could Help Clarify Policies (No. GAO-10-781). 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

Tsang, S.D., 2012. The depth range of azimuthal anisotropy beneath Southern California via analyses of long-period Rayleigh-waves (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

Wagner, J., 2016. Mets Come Out Swinging Like Contenders. New York Times SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2009; Doubleday and Wilsdon, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Doubleday and Wilsdon, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chakraborty et al., 2008)

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