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

Ingham, P. W. (2001). Hedgehog signaling: a tale of two lipids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1879–1881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Swinbanks, D., & Cyranoski, D. (2000). Taiwan backs experience in quest for biotech success. Nature, 407(6802), 417–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shoemaker, C. J., Eyler, D. E., & Green, R. (2010). Dom34:Hbs1 promotes subunit dissociation and peptidyl-tRNA drop-off to initiate no-go decay. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 369–372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nagyvary, J., DiVerdi, J. A., Owen, N. L., & Tolley, H. D. (2006). Wood used by Stradivari and Guarneri. Nature, 444(7119), 565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, B., & Qiu, D. (2014). Sneak Circuits of Power Electronic Converters. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Schürr, A., Varró, D., & Varró, G. (Eds.). (2012). Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance: 4th International Symposium, AGTIVE 2011, Budapest, Hungary, October 4-7, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Vol. 7233). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pin, J.-É. (2013). An Explicit Formula for the Intersection of Two Polynomials of Regular Languages. In M.-P. Béal & O. Carton (Eds.), Developments in Language Theory: 17th International Conference, DLT 2013, Marne-la-Vallée, France, June 18-21, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 31–45). 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. (2014, November 7). How The Bacteria In Our Gut Affect Our Cravings For Food. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-bacteria-our-gut-affect-our-cravings-food/

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. (1980). Basic Sources of International Petroleum Statistics (112639). 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

Paredes, J. (2017). Critical Support for Central American Newcomer Youth and Schooling in One Southern California High School [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

Schwartz, J. (2016, November 3). Putting words into action at climate summit. New York Times, S6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingham, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ingham, 2001; Swinbanks & Cyranoski, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Swinbanks & Cyranoski, 2000)
Three authors: (Shoemaker et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Nagyvary et al., 2006)

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)