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
Macilwain, C., 2000. Stanford accelerator takes lead in race to quantify CP violation. Nature 403, 586–587.
A journal article with 2 authors
Sun, Y.-G., Chen, Z.-F., 2007. A gastrin-releasing peptide receptor mediates the itch sensation in the spinal cord. Nature 448, 700–703.
A journal article with 3 authors
Selmecki, A., Forche, A., Berman, J., 2006. Aneuploidy and isochromosome formation in drug-resistant Candida albicans. Science 313, 367–370.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Pennacchio, L.A., Olivier, M., Hubacek, J.A., Cohen, J.C., Cox, D.R., Fruchart, J.C., Krauss, R.M., Rubin, E.M., 2001. An apolipoprotein influencing triglycerides in humans and mice revealed by comparative sequencing. Science 294, 169–173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Marti, P., 2013. Theory of Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.
An edited book
Gorodetskiy, A.E. (Ed.), 2016. Smart Electromechanical Systems, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Werth, G., Gheorghe, V.N., Major, F.G., 2009. Microwave Spectroscopy, in: Gheorghe, V.N., Major, F.G. (Eds.), Charged Particle Traps II: Applications, Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 85–128.

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
Andrew, D., 2016. Cracking The Mystery Of The ‘Worldwide Hum’ [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cracking-the-mystery-of-the-worldwide-hum/ (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. ADP Systems: Status of SSA’s Modernization Efforts (No. IMTEC-88-56). 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
Zamora, L., 2017. Azura digital health: Scheduling application and prescription service for women’s health (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
Wilson, M., 2017. Atmosphere Is Tempered At Puerto Rican Day Parade. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Sun and Chen, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Sun and Chen, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Pennacchio et al., 2001)

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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