How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. 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

Pockley P (2000) Australian jailed for removal of fossilized footprints. Nature 404:4

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown SP, Hestrin S (2009) Intracortical circuits of pyramidal neurons reflect their long-range axonal targets. Nature 457:1133–1136

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson ME, Hsu M, Conboy IM (2008) Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature 454:528–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sridhar VV, Kapoor A, Zhang K, et al (2007) Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatic silencing by histone H2B deubiquitination. Nature 447:735–738

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen S, Huang P (2017) Principles of Tribology. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore

An edited book

Högselius P (2015) Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Gonçalves R, Knorr M, Leite J (2014) Evolving Bridge Rules in Evolving Multi-Context Systems. In: Bulling N, Torre L van der, Villata S, et al. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 15th International Workshop, CLIMA XV, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 52–69

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 Interaction and Coordination.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Water Ice Seen Inside A Comet For The First Time Thanks To A Massive Landslide. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-ice-seen-inside-a-comet-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-massive-landslide/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1987) District of Columbia: Inmate Participation in Correctional Programs and Previous Lorton Confinements. 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

Schick VR (2010) Examining the vulva: The relationship between female genital aesthetic perceptions and gynecological care. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Smith M, Davey M, Blinder A (2016) Random Shots on a Deadly Night for Kalamazoo. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2000; Brown and Hestrin 2009).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Hestrin 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sridhar et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Interact. Coord.
ISSN (print)	1860-711X
ISSN (online)	1860-7128
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics