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

Stone AJ (2008) Intermolecular potentials. Science 321:787–789

A journal article with 2 authors

Peel MC, McMahon TA (2006) Continental runoff: a quality-controlled global runoff data set. Nature 444:E14; discussion E14-5

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarrinpar A, Park S-H, Lim WA (2003) Optimization of specificity in a cellular protein interaction network by negative selection. Nature 426:676–680

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Naskar D, Nayak S, Dey T, Kundu SC (2014) Non-mulberry silk fibroin influence osteogenesis and osteoblast-macrophage cross talk on titanium based surface. Sci Rep 4:4745

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A (2013) IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Moor O de, Schwartzbach MI (eds) (2009) Compiler Construction: 18th International Conference, CC 2009, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009, York, UK, March 22-29, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Benson DJ, Iyengar S, Krause H (2012) Thursday. In: Iyengar S, Krause H (eds) Representations of Finite Groups: Local Cohomology and Support. Springer, Basel, pp 63–78

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 (2014) Satellites Reveal Previously Unknown Seafloor Features. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/satellites-reveal-previously-unknown-seafloor-features/. 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 (1990) Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct. 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

Wansapura AN (2010) The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids. 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

Sisario B (2016) An Industry Fractured. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Peel and McMahon 2006; Stone 2008).

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

Two authors: (Peel and McMahon 2006)
Three or more authors: (Naskar et al. 2014)

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