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

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

Liu, R. C. (2015). Sensory systems: The yin and yang of cortical oxytocin. Nature, 520(7548), 444–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sedlak, D. L., & von Gunten, U. (2011). Chemistry. The chlorine dilemma. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6013), 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosmans, F., Martin-Eauclaire, M.-F., & Swartz, K. J. (2008). Deconstructing voltage sensor function and pharmacology in sodium channels. Nature, 456(7219), 202–208.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Fernández-Pacheco, A., Serrano-Ramón, L., Michalik, J. M., Ibarra, M. R., De Teresa, J. M., O’Brien, L., Petit, D., Lee, J., & Cowburn, R. P. (2013). Three dimensional magnetic nanowires grown by focused electron-beam induced deposition. Scientific Reports, 3, 1492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLaughlin, T. A. (2010). Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abdelgawad, A. (2012). Resource-Aware Data Fusion Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks (M. Bayoumi, Ed.; Vol. 118). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, L. O., Yang, Z.-H., & Burke, K. (2012). Exact Conditions and Their Relevance in TDDFT. In M. A. L. Marques, N. T. Maitra, F. M. S. Nogueira, E. K. U. Gross, & A. Rubio (Eds.), Fundamentals of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (pp. 101–123). 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 Methodology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). The Long Reach Of The Past: Did Prehistoric Humans Shape Today’s Ecosystems? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/long-reach-past-did-prehistoric-humans-shape-today-s-ecosystems/

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). Industrial Policy: Japan’s Flexible Approach (ID-82-32). 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

Dolan, D. J. (2017). Structural Evolution of Martin Crater Thaumasia Planum, Mars [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, April 8). Predicting the Staying Power of ‘The Jungle Book.’ New York Times, C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Liu, 2015; Sedlak & von Gunten, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sedlak & von Gunten, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Fernández-Pacheco et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Methodology
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Methodol.
ISSN (print)	1350-178X
ISSN (online)	1469-9427
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)