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

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

Walter, M.J., 2000. Earth science. A shear pathway to the core. Nature 403, 839–840.

A journal article with 2 authors

Savill, J., Fadok, V., 2000. Corpse clearance defines the meaning of cell death. Nature 407, 784–788.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saavedra, S., Reed-Tsochas, F., Uzzi, B., 2009. A simple model of bipartite cooperation for ecological and organizational networks. Nature 457, 463–466.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tiwari, M., Sharma, D., Singh, M., Tripathi, R.D., Trivedi, P.K., 2014. Expression of OsMATE1 and OsMATE2 alters development, stress responses and pathogen susceptibility in Arabidopsis. Sci. Rep. 4, 3964.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garton, A.F., 2008. Exploring Cognitive Development: The Child as Problem Solver. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wang, X., Quinn, P.J. (Eds.), 2010. Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Recognition, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Y.Y., Ferrer, X., Wiratunga, N., Plaza, E., 2015. Aspect Selection for Social Recommender Systems, in: Hüllermeier, E., Minor, M. (Eds.), Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: 23rd International Conference, ICCBR 2015, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, September 28-30, 2015. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 60–72.

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 Mathematical Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. We’re About To Get Our First Ever Image Of A Black Hole [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/were-about-to-get-a-first-ever-image-of-a-black-hole/ (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, 1990. U.S.-Korea Fighter Coproduction Program (No. T-NSIAD-90-29). 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

Zakharov, D., 2010. The discrete Dirac operator and the discrete generalized Weierstrass representation in pseudo-Euclidean spaces (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Burghardt, L.F., 2005. With Emphasis on Safety, Playgrounds Aren’t for All. New York Times 14LI1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walter, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Savill and Fadok, 2000; Walter, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Savill and Fadok, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Tiwari et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Economics
Abbreviation	J. Math. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0304-4068
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Mathematics