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

Rose, K.D., 2001. Evolution. The ancestry of whales. Science 293, 2216–2217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ford, R., Spafford, E.H., 2007. Computer science. Happy birthday, dear viruses. Science 317, 210–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alby, K., Schaefer, D., Bennett, R.J., 2009. Homothallic and heterothallic mating in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans. Nature 460, 890–893.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jørgensen, H.F., Chen, Z.-F., Merkenschlager, M., Fisher, A.G., 2009. Is REST required for ESC pluripotency? Nature 457, E4-5; discussion E7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lowman, M., 2017. A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Renals, S., Bengio, S. (Eds.), 2006. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop, MLMI 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 11-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, K., Zhou, Y., Li, D., Zhang, Z., Huang, K., 2016. A Large-Scale Distributed Video Parsing and Evaluation Platform, in: Zhang, Z., Huang, K. (Eds.), Intelligent Visual Surveillance: 4th Chinese Conference, IVS 2016, Beijing, China, October 19, 2016, Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Singapore, pp. 37–43.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Sea Level Rise Is Almost Certain To Ravage The World’s Major Coastal Cities By 2100 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sea-level-rise-is-almost-certain-to-ravage-the-worlds-major-coastal-cities-by-2100/ (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, 2005. Student Aid And Postsecondary Tax Preferences: Limited Research Exists on Effectiveness of Tools to Assist Students and Families through Title IV Student Aid and Tax Preferences (No. GAO-05-684). 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

Tosti, C.L., 2009. Quantification of dispersed and aggregated iron in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Billard, M., 2010. Jewelry Born Of Child’s Play. New York Times E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rose, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ford and Spafford, 2007; Rose, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ford and Spafford, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jørgensen et al., 2009)

About the journal

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