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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lawler, A. (2000). SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION: NASA Blasted for Rising Costs, Cancellations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5497), 1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodner, S., & Paine, C. (2000). When peer review fails. Nature, 407(6801), 129–130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Drinnenberg, I. A., Fink, G. R., & Bartel, D. P. (2011). Compatibility with killer explains the rise of RNAi-deficient fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6049), 1592.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shin, J.-W., Hammer, N. I., Diken, E. G., Johnson, M. A., Walters, R. S., Jaeger, T. D., Duncan, M. A., Christie, R. A., & Jordan, K. D. (2004). Infrared signature of structures associated with the H+(H2O)n (n = 6 to 27) clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5674), 1137–1140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte, S. A. (2015). Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferrario, M., Ciccotti, G., & Binder, K. (Eds.). (2006). Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Systems: From Materials to Chemical Biology Volume 1 (Vol. 703). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeakley, J. A. (2014). Urban Hydrology in the Pacific Northwest. In J. A. Yeakley, K. G. Maas-Hebner, & R. M. Hughes (Eds.), Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest (pp. 59–74). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, April 28). Tiny Songbird Flies 60 Hours Nonstop Across The Sahara. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). Patent Policy: Recent Changes in Federal Law Considered Beneficial (RCED-87-44). 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

Decena, M. (2010). What variables affect Peritoneal Dialysis growth? [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

Alvarez, L. (2015, June 25). Families Hope Words Endure Past Shooting. 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 (Lawler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bodner & Paine, 2000; Lawler, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bodner & Paine, 2000)
Three authors: (Drinnenberg et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Shin et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0167-4870
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Psychology Sociology and Political Science