How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Growth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic Growth. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rhee, S. G. (2006). Cell signaling. H2O2, a necessary evil for cell signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauser, M. D., & Bever, T. (2008). Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5904), 1057–1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coppedè, N., Villani, M., & Gentile, F. (2014). Diffusion driven selectivity in organic electrochemical transistors. Scientific reports, 4, 4297.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thomas, R. J., Krehbiel, P. R., Rison, W., Edens, H. E., Aulich, G. D., Winn, W. P., et al. (2007). Electrical activity during the 2006 Mount St. Augustine volcanic eruptions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5815), 1097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, R. E. (1999). Optimization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guelfi, N. (Ed.). (2005). Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques: First International Workshop, RISE 2004, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg, November 26, 2004. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3475). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Karra, S., Jelali, M., Karim, M. N., & Horch, A. (2010). Detection of Oscillating Control Loops. In M. Jelali & B. Huang (Eds.), Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops: State of the Art and Advanced Methods (pp. 61–100). London: Springer.

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 Growth.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 1). How Oversized Atoms Could Help Shrink “Lab-On-A-Chip” Devices. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-oversized-atoms-could-help-shrink-lab-chip-devices/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1985). Report on Evaluation of Lapsize Computers (No. 128117). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Adetunji, O. O. (2008). The Nature of Electronic States in Conducting Polymer Nano-Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Branch, J. (2017, March 16). Royal Robbins, Trailblazer and Conscience of Rock Climbers, Dies at 82. New York Times, p. B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rhee 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hauser and Bever 2008; Rhee 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hauser and Bever 2008)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Growth
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Growth (Boston)
ISSN (print)	1381-4338
ISSN (online)	1573-7020
Scope	Economics and Econometrics