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

Stevenson, P.A., 2009. Ecology. The key to Pandora’s box. Science 323, 594–595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt, A., Deisseroth, K., 2015. OPTOGENETICS. Expanding the optogenetics toolkit. Science 349, 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza, M., Succi, S., Herrmann, H.J., 2013. Flow through randomly curved manifolds. Sci. Rep. 3, 3106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mondal, M., Kamlapure, A., Ganguli, S.C., Jesudasan, J., Bagwe, V., Benfatto, L., Raychaudhuri, P., 2013. Enhancement of the finite-frequency superfluid response in the pseudogap regime of strongly disordered superconducting films. Sci. Rep. 3, 1357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lawless, H.T., 2013. Quantitative Sensory Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ovádi, J., Orosz, F. (Eds.), 2009. Protein Folding and Misfolding: Neurodegenerative Diseases, Focus on Structural Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Brzostowski, K., Rekuć, W., Sobecki, J., Szczurowski, L., 2010. Service Discovery in the SOA System, in: Nguyen, N.T., Le, M.T., Świątek, J. (Eds.), Intelligent Information and Database Systems: Second International Conference, ACIIDS, Hue City, Vietnam, March 24-26, 2010. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–38.

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. New Images Provide Strongest Evidence So Far For Liquid Water On Mars [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, 2015. Space Acquisitions: GAO Assessment of DOD Responsive Launch Report (No. GAO-16-156R). 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

Thomas Hurford, C.E., 2010. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Koblin, J., Wingfield, N., 2017. Amazon Suspends Executive Accused of Sex Harassment. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stevenson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Berndt and Deisseroth, 2015; Stevenson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Berndt and Deisseroth, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mondal et al., 2013)

About the journal

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