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

Hoshino, M., 2003. Space physics. Coupling across many scales. Science 299, 834–835.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domkin, V., Chabes, A., 2014. Phosphines are ribonucleotide reductase reductants that act via C-terminal cysteines similar to thioredoxins and glutaredoxins. Sci. Rep. 4, 5539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frebel, A., Kirby, E.N., Simon, J.D., 2010. Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor. Nature 464, 72–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kizhatil, K., Baker, S.A., Arshavsky, V.Y., Bennett, V., 2009. Ankyrin-G promotes cyclic nucleotide-gated channel transport to rod photoreceptor sensory cilia. Science 323, 1614–1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garg, V.K., 2005. Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jackowski, K., Burduk, R., Walkowiak, K., Wozniak, M., Yin, H. (Eds.), 2015. Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2015: 16th International Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, October 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tytgat, D., Lievens, S., Six, E., 2013. A Prior-Based Approach to 3D Face Reconstruction Using Depth Images, in: Jiang, X., Bellon, O.R.P., Goldgof, D., Oishi, T. (Eds.), Advances in Depth Image Analysis and Applications: International Workshop, WDIA 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 32–41.

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., 2015. Let’s Call It: 30 Years Of Above Average Temperatures Means The Climate Has Changed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/let-s-call-it-30-years-above-average-temperatures-means-climate-has-changed/ (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, 2005. Large Truck Safety: Federal Enforcement Efforts Have Been Stronger Since 2000, but Oversight of State Grants Needs Improvement (No. GAO-06-156). 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

Gonzalez, R., 2010. A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Choi, M.H.K., 2015. LaCroix Sparkling Water. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoshino, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Domkin and Chabes, 2014; Hoshino, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Domkin and Chabes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kizhatil et al., 2009)

About the journal

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