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

Fishman, M.C., 2001. Genomics. Zebrafish--the canonical vertebrate. Science 294, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberles, S.D., Buck, L.B., 2006. A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. Nature 442, 645–650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, L., Spasojevic, S., Gurnis, M., 2008. Reconstructing Farallon plate subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous. Science 322, 934–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kellermann, V., van Heerwaarden, B., Sgrò, C.M., Hoffmann, A.A., 2009. Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions. Science 325, 1244–1246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, S.A., 2011. Food and Package Engineering. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Cioffi, N., Rai, M. (Eds.), 2012. Nano-Antimicrobials: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yumkella, K.K., 2012. Multilateralism and Energy for Development, in: Toth, F.L. (Ed.), Energy for Development: Resources, Technologies, Environment, Environment & Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 45–56.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. New Species Of Tardigrade Discovered In Antarctica [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-tardigrade-discovered-antarctica/ (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, 1998. Aviation Safety: FAA Oversight of Aviation Repair Stations (No. T-RCED-98-188). 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 Fossen, L., 2015. The communicative use of iconic face drawings to express emotional and evaluative statements in persons with aphasia (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

Mueller, B., McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2015. Connecticut Death Penalty Law Is Unconstitutional, Top State Court Says. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fishman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fishman, 2001; Liberles and Buck, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Liberles and Buck, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kellermann 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