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

Winchester, S., 2008. China: The man who unveiled China. Nature 454, 409–411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liebman, S.W., Haber, J.E., 2013. Retrospective. Fred Sherman (1932-2013). Science 342, 1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gadalla, M.N., Abdel-Rahman, M., Shamim, A., 2014. Design, optimization and fabrication of a 28.3 THz nano-rectenna for infrared detection and rectification. Sci. Rep. 4, 4270.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghezraoui, H., Oliveira, C., Becker, J.R., Bilham, K., Moralli, D., Anzilotti, C., Fischer, R., Deobagkar-Lele, M., Sanchiz-Calvo, M., Fueyo-Marcos, E., Bonham, S., Kessler, B.M., Rottenberg, S., Cornall, R.J., Green, C.M., Chapman, J.R., 2018. 53BP1 cooperation with the REV7-shieldin complex underpins DNA structure-specific NHEJ. Nature 560, 122–127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Focardi, S.M., Fabozzi, F.J., Bali, T.G., 2013. Mathematical Methods for Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grupen, C., 2016. Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Harness Them. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedrini, L.A., 2013. Techniques and Kinetics of Hemodiafiltration, in: Azar, A.T. (Ed.), Modeling and Control of Dialysis Systems: Volume 2: Biofeedback Systems and Soft Computing Techniques of Dialysis, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1011–1078.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015. Hypnotic Time-Lapse Videos Showcase The Seldom Seen Movements of Nature [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, 1988. Telecommunications: Actions Needed for Better Management of Public Safety Spectrum (No. RCED-88-173). 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

Grizzel, R.E., 2010. Three choral works by Dr. James Mobberley—the analysis rehearsal, and performance of “Poem to Ease Birth”, “Lullaby”, and “Spring: O Sparrow” (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

Kelly, K., 2017. A Piece of Obama’s Life, Post-Presidency: Sandwiches and Speeches. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winchester, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Liebman and Haber, 2013; Winchester, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Liebman and Haber, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ghezraoui et al., 2018)

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