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

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

Nielsen, M.W., 2015. Make academic job advertisements fair to all. Nature 525, 427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren, L.J.M.J., Everitt, B.J., 2004. Drug seeking becomes compulsive after prolonged cocaine self-administration. Science 305, 1017–1019.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mal, N.K., Fujiwara, M., Tanaka, Y., 2003. Photocontrolled reversible release of guest molecules from coumarin-modified mesoporous silica. Nature 421, 350–353.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, J.-J., Zhao, X., Zhao, Y., Gao, X., 2013. Two-dimensional carbon compounds derived from graphyne with chemical properties superior to those of graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 1271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H.K., Martin, G.S., 2011. Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kirst, M., Schaefer-McDaniel, N., Hwang, S., O’Campo, P. (Eds.), 2011. Converging Disciplines: A Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Urban Health Problems. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, S.C., 2014. Image-Based Rendering, in: Ikeuchi, K. (Ed.), Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 392–399.

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 Theory.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. This “Space Glass” Lets You Drink Whiskey In Orbit [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Air Force Rationale for JDAM Production Decision (No. NSIAD-97-176R). 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

Van Exel, L.M., 2012. Applying database refactoring techniques to procedural SQL (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G., 2014. Seeking Stars, Finding Creationism. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nielsen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nielsen, 2015; Vanderschuren and Everitt, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Vanderschuren and Everitt, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Theory
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Theory
ISSN (print)	0022-0531
Scope	Economics and Econometrics