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

McDowell, N., 2003. Joint European plan will tackle Africa’s killer diseases. Nature 421, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S.E., Gaines, R.R., 2012. Formation of the “Great Unconformity” as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Nature 484, 363–366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yue, H., Lay, T., Koper, K.D., 2012. En échelon and orthogonal fault ruptures of the 11 April 2012 great intraplate earthquakes. Nature 490, 245–249.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bowen, G.J., Clyde, W.C., Koch, P.L., Ting, S., Alroy, J., Tsubamoto, T., Wang, Yuanqing, Wang, Yuan, 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science 295, 2062–2065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, X., Parini, C.G., Collins, B., Yao, Y., Ur Rehman, M., 2012. Antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Barros, A., Gal, A., Kindler, E. (Eds.), 2012. Business Process Management: 10th International Conference, BPM 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, September 3-6, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Olson, J., Champagne, P., Roth, E., Evtimov, B., Clappier, R., Nast, T., Renna, T., Martin, B., 2006. Lockheed Martin 6K/18K Cryocooler, in: Ross, R.G. (Ed.), Cryocoolers 13. Springer US, Boston, MA, 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 International Economics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Spectacular Stellar Winds Seen In Highest Resolution Yet [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, 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: National Credit Union Administration’s Efforts to Ensure Credit Union Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant (No. T-AIMD-98-20). 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

Zimmerman, T.F., 2010. A descriptive review of the development and implementation of a funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The first 10 years, 1998–2008 (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Deep Into the Wild With Jane Goodall. New York Times C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (McDowell, 2003; Peters and Gaines, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Gaines, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bowen et al., 2002)

About the journal

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