How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Wilmot, C.M., 2007. Biochemistry. An ancient and intimate partnership. Science 316, 379–380.
A journal article with 2 authors
Levine, J.M., HilleRisLambers, J., 2009. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity. Nature 461, 254–257.
A journal article with 3 authors
Burkett, V., Groat, C.G., Reed, D., 2007. Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science 315, 1366–1368.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Chen, L., Guo, L., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Lin, J., Huang, J., Jin, S., Chen, X., 2013. Towards intrinsic magnetism of graphene sheets with irregular zigzag edges. Sci. Rep. 3, 2599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Seyfried, T.N., 2012. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Pavese, F., Forbes, A.B. (Eds.), 2009. Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.
A chapter in an edited book
Beckers, D., 2014. Patterns of Facilitation, in: Beckers, Dominiek, Buck, M. (Eds.), PNF in Practice: An Illustrated Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 63–68.

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 Dynamics and Control.

Blog post
Hamilton, K., 2015. The Most Incredible Photographs The Hubble Telescope Has Ever Taken [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-space-telescope-s-25th-anniversary/ (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, 1980. Support Service Contracting at Johnson Space Center Needs Strengthening (No. PSAD-81-2). 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
Lim, T., 2017. Information-Theoretic Aspects of Signal Analysis and Reconstruction (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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
Pilon, M., 2013. Races End Fees to Top Runners, Drawing Outcry. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilmot, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009; Wilmot, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Economic Dynamics and Control
AbbreviationJ. Econ. Dyn. Control
ISSN (print)0165-1889
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics
Applied Mathematics
Control and Optimization

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