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

Pusey, P.N., 2011. Physics. Brownian motion goes ballistic. Science 332, 802–803.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remondes, M., Schuman, E.M., 2002. Direct cortical input modulates plasticity and spiking in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Nature 416, 736–740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chave, J., Alonso, D., Etienne, R.S., 2006. Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature 441, E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Galloway, J.L., Delgado, I., Ros, M.A., Tabin, C.J., 2009. A reevaluation of X-irradiation-induced phocomelia and proximodistal limb patterning. Nature 460, 400–404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen, T.T., Kasper, T., Melkko, S., 2005. 3G Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Detyniecki, M., García-Serrano, A., Nürnberger, A. (Eds.), 2011. Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval. Understanding Media and Adapting to the User: 7th International Workshop, AMR 2009, Madrid, Spain, September 24-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Eppelbaum, L., Khesin, B., 2012. Regional Physical-Geological Models and Regioning, in: Khesin, B. (Ed.), Geophysical Studies in the Caucasus, Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 139–217.

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., 2014. What Causes These Mysterious Fairy Circles? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-causes-these-mysterious-fairy-circles/ (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, 1993. Airline Competition: Options For Addressing Financial and Competition Problems (No. T-RCED-93-52). 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

Miller, N.Y., 2017. Nutrition education series for female club soccer players 14 to 18 years of age (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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. French Group Suspends Three Players for Unprofessional Behavior. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pusey, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Pusey, 2011; Remondes and Schuman, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Remondes and Schuman, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Galloway et al., 2009)

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