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

Delude, C.M., 2015. Deep phenotyping: The details of disease. Nature 527, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prins, G., Rayner, S., 2007. Time to ditch Kyoto. Nature 449, 973–975.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayashi, K., Yoshida, K., Matsui, Y., 2005. A histone H3 methyltransferase controls epigenetic events required for meiotic prophase. Nature 438, 374–378.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ducatez, M.F., Olinger, C.M., Owoade, A.A., De Landtsheer, S., Ammerlaan, W., Niesters, H.G.M., Osterhaus, A.D.M.E., Fouchier, R.A.M., Muller, C.P., 2006. Avian flu: multiple introductions of H5N1 in Nigeria. Nature 442, 37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaplan, W., 1998. Maxima and Minima with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zaumseil, M., Schwarz, S., von Vacano, M., Sullivan, G.B., Prawitasari-Hadiyono, J.E. (Eds.), 2014. Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters: The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, G., 2013. Poverty and Minority Children’s Education in the USA: Case Study of a Sudanese Refugee Family, in: Johnson, D.J., Agbényiga, D.L., Hitchcock, R.K. (Eds.), Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 55–70.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Oceans in imminent danger of losing a quarter of all sharks and stingrays [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oceans-imminent-danger-losing-quarter-all-sharks-and-stingrays/ (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, 2002. Education Research: Education Should Improve Assessments of R&D Centers, Regional Labs, and Comprehensive Centers (No. GAO-02-190). 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

Subbarao, S., 2015. An 8-PSK super regenerative receiver: Design and simulation (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

Dominus, S., 2015. Refusing My Religion. New York Times BR10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Delude, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Delude, 2015; Prins and Rayner, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Prins and Rayner, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ducatez et al., 2006)

About the journal

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