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

Kronenberg HM (2003) Developmental regulation of the growth plate. Nature 423:332–336

A journal article with 2 authors

Parmesan C, Yohe G (2003) A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature 421:37–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Foote AD, Osborne RW, Hoelzel AR (2004) Environment: whale-call response to masking boat noise. Nature 428:910

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brangwynne CP, Eckmann CR, Courson DS, et al (2009) Germline P granules are liquid droplets that localize by controlled dissolution/condensation. Science 324:1729–1732

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem JM (2011) Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brune H (2006) Nanotechnology: Assessment and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Stanilov K (2007) The restructuring of non-residential uses in the post-socialist metropolis. In: Stanilov K (ed) The Post-Socialist City: Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe after Socialism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 73–99

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

Andrew E (2015) Shedding New Light On The Search For The ‘Invisible’ Dark Matter. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/shedding-new-light-search-invisible-dark-matter/. 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 (2004) Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service Needs to Further Strengthen Program Management. 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

Kaminsky E (2006) Schumann’s Op. 14: Original, Revised and Edited (“Concerto without Orchestra” versus Piano Sonata No. 3). Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Saslow L (2007) From Restaurant Fryers, A Petroleum Alternative. New York Times 14LI6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kronenberg 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Parmesan and Yohe 2003; Kronenberg 2003).

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

Two authors: (Parmesan and Yohe 2003)
Three or more authors: (Brangwynne 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