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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Alon, U. (2003). Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5641), 1866–1867.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hunter, C. A., & Mayers, P. C. (2001). Knot tied around an octahedral metal centre. Nature, 411(6839), 763.
A journal article with 3 authors
Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt? An FMRI study of social exclusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5643), 290–292.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Barker, J., Atxitia, U., Ostler, T. A., Hovorka, O., Chubykalo-Fesenko, O., & Chantrell, R. W. (2013). Two-magnon bound state causes ultrafast thermally induced magnetisation switching. Scientific Reports, 3, 3262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bays, D. H. (2011). A New History of Christianity in China. Wiley-Blackwell.
An edited book
Gómez, G. M., & Knorringa, P. (Eds.). (2016). Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
A chapter in an edited book
Kufleitner, M. (2006). Polynomials, Fragments of Temporal Logic and the Variety DA over Traces. In O. H. Ibarra & Z. Dang (Eds.), Developments in Language Theory: 10th International Conference, DLT 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 26-29, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 37–48). 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
Fang, J. (2014, May 2). Scientists Regenerate Leg Muscles With Pig Bladder Tissue. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-regenerate-leg-muscles-pig-bladder-tissue/

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. (1993). Army Reserve Officer Education (NSIAD-93-197R). 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
Gleason, R. (2013). Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films [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
Wagner, J. (2016, October 7). Mets Enter Off-Season With One Big Question and Many Decisions. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alon, 2003; Hunter & Mayers, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Hunter & Mayers, 2001)
  • Three authors: (Eisenberger et al., 2003)
  • 6 or more authors: (Barker et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Economic Methodology
AbbreviationJ. Econ. Methodol.
ISSN (print)1350-178X
ISSN (online)1469-9427
ScopeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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