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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). 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

Greeley, J.P. (2012), “Chemistry. Active site of an industrial catalyst,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6083), 810–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grewal, S.I.S., and S.C.R. Elgin (2007), “Transcription and RNA interference in the formation of heterochromatin,” Nature, 447(7143), 399–406.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muchnik, L., S. Aral, and S.J. Taylor (2013), “Social influence bias: a randomized experiment,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6146), 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, L., C.R. Eckmann, L.C. Kadyk, M. Wickens, and J. Kimble (2002), “A regulatory cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase in Caenorhabditis elegans,” Nature, 419(6904), 312–316.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe, A., and S. Coleman (2014), A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hubrig, S., M. Petr-Gotzens, and A. Tokovinin (eds.) (2008), Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Agoulnik, A.I. (2007), “Relaxin and Related Peptides in Male Reproduction,” in: A.I. Agoulnik (ed.), Relaxin and Related Peptides, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 49–64.

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 Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014), Herschel Discovers Water Building Molecules Around Dying Stars, https://www.iflscience.com/space/herschel-discovers-water-building-molecules-around-dying-stars/, accessed October 30, 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 (1998), “[Comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Implementation of Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934],” No. B-278820, 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

Best, W. (2009), Beneath the Silence, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Protess, B. (2017), “Lawyer Is Now Regulating Banking Industry He Has Spent a Career Protecting,” New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greeley, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Greeley, 2012; Grewal and Elgin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Grewal and Elgin, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Abbreviation	J. Inst. Theor. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0932-4569
ISSN (online)	1614-0559
Scope	Economics and Econometrics