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

Abbott A (2003) Danish biotech centre faces axe. Nature 422:105

A journal article with 2 authors

Andreasen R, Sharma M (2006) Solar nebula heterogeneity in p-process samarium and neodymium isotopes. Science 314:806–809

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen S-K, Badea TC, Hattar S (2011) Photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex are mediated by distinct populations of ipRGCs. Nature 476:92–95

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Anderson MC, Ochsner KN, Kuhl B, et al (2004) Neural systems underlying the suppression of unwanted memories. Science 303:232–235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan SP (2015) Mechanical Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kostrzewa RM, Archer T (eds) (2016) Neurotoxin Modeling of Brain Disorders — Life-long Outcomes in Behavioral Teratology, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kelly A, Kaufman SC, Lass J, et al (2014) Imaging Techniques for Corneal Disorders. In: Jeng BH (ed) Advances in Medical and Surgical Cornea: From Diagnosis to Procedure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–55

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

Hale T (2017) Theives Have Stolen 24,000 Bees From English Country Estate. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theives-have-stolen-24000-bees-from-english-country-estate-/. 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 (2009) Highway Trust Fund Expenditures on Purposes Other than Construction and Maintenance of Highways and Bridges during Fiscal Years 2004-2008. 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

Ramirez BN (2012) Middle School English Language Learner Electronic Media Usage and Its Relationship to Reading. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Grimes W (2016) Nina Ponomareva, Winner of Historic Gold, Dies at 87. New York Times B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Andreasen and Sharma 2006).

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

Two authors: (Andreasen and Sharma 2006)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al. 2004)

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

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