How to format your references using the Journal of Macroeconomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Macroeconomics. 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

Bohannon, J., 2009. The Gonzo Scientist. Results from the science dance match-up challenge. Science 324, 1262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lybarger, S.R., Sandkvist, M., 2004. Microbiology. A hitchhiker’s guide to type IV secretion. Science 304, 1122–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humphries, M.M., Thomas, D.W., Speakman, J.R., 2002. Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals. Nature 418, 313–316.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tahiliani, M., Mei, P., Fang, R., Leonor, T., Rutenberg, M., Shimizu, F., Li, J., Rao, A., Shi, Y., 2007. The histone H3K4 demethylase SMCX links REST target genes to X-linked mental retardation. Nature 447, 601–605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulze, V., 2005. Modern Mechanical Surface Treatment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Vinks, A.A., Derendorf, H., Mouton, J.W. (Eds.), 2014. Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Shirouzu, H., 2013. Learning Fractions Through Folding in an Elementary Face-to-Face Classroom, in: Suthers, D.D., Lund, K., Rosé, C.P., Teplovs, C., Law, N. (Eds.), Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 63–101.

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 Macroeconomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Stress Affects Sperm RNA In Mice [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stress-affects-sperm-rna-mice/ (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, 2014. Telecommunications: FCC Should Improve the Accountability and Transparency of High-Cost Program Funding (No. GAO-14-587). 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

Li, K., 2010. An explicative model of leisure-time physical activities among church-going African Americans in Indianapolis (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Bryans Defeated for Title in ‘Maybe the Last Year.’ New York Times SP5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2009; Lybarger and Sandkvist, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lybarger and Sandkvist, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Tahiliani et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Macroeconomics
Abbreviation	J. Macroecon.
ISSN (print)	0164-0704
Scope	Economics and Econometrics