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

Darnell, J.C. (2014), “Molecular biology. Ribosome rescue and neurodegeneration,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6195), 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sattelberger, A.P., and M.J.A. Johnson (2012), “Chemistry. Uncovering the uranium-nitrogen triple bond,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6095), 652–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lev, M., O. Yehezkel, and U. Polat (2014), “Uncovering foveal crowding?,” Scientific reports, 4, 4067.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lovering, A.L., L.H. de Castro, D. Lim, and N.C.J. Strynadka (2007), “Structural insight into the transglycosylation step of bacterial cell-wall biosynthesis,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5817), 1402–1405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abd-El-Barr, M., and H. El-Rewini (2004), Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Isabelle, A.D. (2016), Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubler, S., W. Derigent, É. Rondeau, A. Thomas, and K. Främling (2013), “Embedded Data on Intelligent Products – Impact on Real-Time Applications,” in: M. Matera, G. Rossi (eds.), Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 25–34.

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

Hamilton, K. (2014), Watch A Python Swallow A Whole Deer, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-huge-python-swallow-whole-deer/, 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 (1984), “Delays and Increased Cost Result From the Zilwaukee, Michigan, Bridge Project Mishap,” No. RCED-84-144, 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

Hoefer, P.D. (2010), A David against Goliath: The American veterans committee’s challenge to the American legion in the 1950s, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Herrman, J. (2016), “Mayer’s Media Problem at Yahoo Is Now Verizon’s,” 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 (Darnell, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Darnell, 2014; Sattelberger and Johnson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sattelberger and Johnson, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lovering et al., 2007)

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