How to format your references using the Journal of Family and Economic Issues citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 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

Retallack, G. J. (2001). A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles. Nature, 411(6835), 287–290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alle, H., & Geiger, J. R. P. (2006). Combined analog and action potential coding in hippocampal mossy fibers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5765), 1290–1293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharma, J., Angelucci, A., & Sur, M. (2000). Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex. Nature, 404(6780), 841–847.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roberts, W. A., Feeney, M. C., Macpherson, K., Petter, M., McMillan, N., & Musolino, E. (2008). Episodic-like memory in rats: is it based on when or how long ago? Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 113–115.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier, E. (2005). Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Larouche, P., & Cserne, P. (Eds.). (2013). National Legal Systems and Globalization: New Role, Continuing Relevance. The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi, R., Takimoto, M., & Kambayashi, Y. (2015). Cooperative Transportation Using Pheromone Agents. In B. Duval, J. van den Herik, S. Loiseau, & J. Filipe (Eds.), Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 6th International Conference, ICAART 2014, Angers, France, March 6-8, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 46–62). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Family and Economic Issues.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, September 5). Study Reveals Why The Brain Can’t Forget Amputated Limbs, Even Decades Later. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-reveals-why-the-brain-cant-forget-amputated-limbs-even-decades-later/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FAA Continues to Make Important Strides, But Vulnerabilities Remain (No. T-AIMD-99-285). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yasa, S. R. (2017). Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Larkin, E. (2017, May 26). Trust and Trauma. New York Times, p. BR18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Retallack 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Alle and Geiger 2006; Retallack 2001).

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

Two authors: (Alle and Geiger 2006)
Three or more authors: (Roberts et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Econ. Issues
ISSN (print)	1058-0476
ISSN (online)	1573-3475
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Social Psychology General Economics, Econometrics and Finance General Social Sciences