How to format your references using the Journal of Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Duncan M (2009) Astronomy. Re-viewing an old comet reservoir. Science 325:1211–1212

A journal article with 2 authors

Budd GE, Telford MJ (2009) The origin and evolution of arthropods. Nature 457:812–817

A journal article with 3 authors

Schibler U, Ripperger JA, Brown SA (2001) Circadian rhythms. Chronobiology--reducing time. Science 293:437–438

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Terret M-E, Sherwood R, Rahman S, et al (2009) Cohesin acetylation speeds the replication fork. Nature 462:231–234

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halbich IW (1993) Cape Fold Belt‐Agulhas Bank Transect Across Gondwana Suture, Southern Africa. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C.

An edited book

Hendren L (ed) (2008) Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Basnayake R, Bollt EM (2014) A Multi-time Step Method to Compute Optical Flow with Scientific Priors for Observations of a Fluidic System. In: Bahsoun W, Bose C, Froyland G (eds) Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures. Springer, New York, NY, pp 59–79

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 Economics.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) The 25 Greatest Scientific Hoaxes In History. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-video-25-greatest-scientific-hoaxes-history/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2001) Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges. 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

Hobbs E (2017) Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor. 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

Barron J (2017) Juliana Koo, 111; Wrote Life Story at 104. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duncan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Budd and Telford 2009; Duncan 2009).

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

Two authors: (Budd and Telford 2009)
Three or more authors: (Terret et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics
Abbreviation	J. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0931-8658
ISSN (online)	1617-7134
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics