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

Macilwain, C., 2013. Thrill of space exploration is a universal constant. Nature 503, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelemen, P.B., Hirth, G., 2007. A periodic shear-heating mechanism for intermediate-depth earthquakes in the mantle. Nature 446, 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koechlin, E., Ody, C., Kouneiher, F., 2003. The architecture of cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex. Science 302, 1181–1185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pascual, J.I., Lorente, N., Song, Z., Conrad, H., Rust, H.-P., 2003. Selectivity in vibrationally mediated single-molecule chemistry. Nature 423, 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot, G., La Borderie, C., Reess, T., Chen, W., Maurel, O., Rey-Berbeder, F., de Ferron, A., 2016. Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kryszkiewicz, M., Cornelis, C., Ciucci, D., Medina-Moreno, J., Motoda, H., Raś, Z.W. (Eds.), 2014. Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: Second International Conference, RSEISP 2014, Held as Part of JRS 2014, Granada and Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Neuman, T., 2006. Positional and Restraint Asphyxia, in: Ross, D.L., Chan, T.C. (Eds.), Sudden Deaths in Custody, Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 39–57.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-finally-unravel-hawaiis-bizarre-origin-story/ (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, 2002. Highway Financing: Factors Affecting Highway Trust Fund Revenues (No. GAO-02-667T). 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

Martinez, C.A., 2013. Intervention workshops for members of multidisciplinary teams on hoarding: A grant proposal (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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. A Family Revolving Around a Disability. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kelemen and Hirth, 2007; Macilwain, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kelemen and Hirth, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pascual et al., 2003)

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

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