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

Prewitt, K. (2004), “Sociology. What if we give a census and no one comes?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1452–1453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dietrich, W.E., and J.T. Perron (2006), “The search for a topographic signature of life,” Nature, 439(7075), 411–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimmet, P., K.G. Alberti, and J. Shaw (2001), “Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic,” Nature, 414(6865), 782–787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gonzalez, S., P. Klatt, S. Delgado, E. Conde, F. Lopez-Rios, M. Sanchez-Cespedes, J. Mendez, F. Antequera, and M. Serrano (2006), “Oncogenic activity of Cdc6 through repression of the INK4/ARF locus,” Nature, 440(7084), 702–706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd, K. (2011), TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Torquebiau, E. (ed.) (2016), Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide, 1st ed. 2016, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sommer, R.J., and B.T. Spencer (2015), “Aging and Patent Foramen Ovale,” in: Z. Amin, J.M. Tobis, H. Sievert, J.D. Carroll (eds.), Patent Foramen Ovale, Springer, London, pp. 25–30.

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. (2015), Computer Program Cannot Be Beaten At Texas Hold ’Em Poker, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/unbeatable-computer-program-has-solved-texas-hold-em-poker/, 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 (2005), “NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines,” No. GAO-05-818, 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

Carman, S.B. (2013), Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Landler, M., and B. Appelbaum (2017), “Trump Tells Foreign Leaders That Nafta Can Stay for Now,” New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prewitt, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Prewitt, 2004; Dietrich and Perron, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Dietrich and Perron, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gonzalez et al., 2006)

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