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

Severinghaus, J. P. (2009). Atmospheric science. Monsoons and meltdowns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5950), 240–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley, S. A., & Evershed, R. P. (2001). Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies. Nature, 413(6858), 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin, A. C., Kaschube, M., & Wieschaus, E. F. (2009). Pulsed contractions of an actin-myosin network drive apical constriction. Nature, 457(7228), 495–499.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Laurberg, M., Asahara, H., Korostelev, A., Zhu, J., Trakhanov, S., & Noller, H. F. (2008). Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome. Nature, 454(7206), 852–857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertein, J.-C., & Ceschi, R. (2013). Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Broadbent, J., & Brockman, V. (Eds.). (2011). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bickhoff, N., Hollensen, S., & Opresnik, M. (2014). Step 2: Strategic and Operative Marketing Planning—Segmenting, Targeting, Positioning. In S. Hollensen & M. Opresnik (Eds.), The Quintessence of Marketing: What You Really Need to Know to Manage Your Marketing Activities (pp. 47–110). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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, August 11). Spicy Food Is Associated With A Lower Risk Of Death. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-chili-day-keep-coffin-away/. 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. (1982). The Federal Communications Commission’s International Telecommunications Activities (No. CED-82-77). 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

France, K. A. (2015). Triadic Supervision: An Exploration of Supervisors’ Perceptions, Experiences and Practices (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, November 30). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dalai Lama Arrives. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Severinghaus 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Buckley and Evershed 2001; Severinghaus 2009).

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

Two authors: (Buckley and Evershed 2001)
Three or more authors: (Laurberg et al. 2008)

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