How to format your references using the Journal of International Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International 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	Download the output style file
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

Bignami, G.F., 2008. Astronomy. Gamma rays and neutron stars. Science 322, 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard, S.S., Jewitt, D.C., 2003. An abundant population of small irregular satellites around Jupiter. Nature 423, 261–263.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giovannetti, V., Lloyd, S., Maccone, L., 2004. Quantum-enhanced measurements: beating the standard quantum limit. Science 306, 1330–1336.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wei, T., Tian, Y., Chen, F., Cai, M., Zhang, J., Jing, X., Wang, F., Zhang, Q., Xu, S., 2014. Mid-infrared fluorescence, energy transfer process and rate equation analysis in Er3+ doped germanate glass. Sci. Rep. 4, 6060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M.R., Hossain, M.E., Moussavizadegan, S.H., Mustafiz, S., Abou&xKassem, J.H., 2016. Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhou, Q. (Ed.), 2011. Advances in Applied Economics, Business and Development: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, C.J., 2011. A Paleoecological Perspective on Wetland Restoration, in: LePage, B.A. (Ed.), Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–91.

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 International Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Awesome Anti-Gravity Water Experiment [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Transition Series: Information Technology Issues (No. OCG-89-6TR). 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

Odom, S.A., 2017. Electronic health records: Overcoming obstacles to improve acceptance and utilization for mental health clinicians (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

Brantley, B., 2017. The Fight to Stay Alive. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami, 2008; Sheppard and Jewitt, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sheppard and Jewitt, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Economics
Abbreviation	J. Int. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0022-1996
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance