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

White, M.C., 2012. Chemistry. Adding aliphatic C-H bond oxidations to synthesis. Science 335, 807–809.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp, A., Bennett, M.J., 2015. Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees. Nature 517, 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanimoto, H., Heisenberg, M., Gerber, B., 2004. Experimental psychology: event timing turns punishment to reward. Nature 430, 983.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gasperini, D., Blichert-Toft, J., Bosch, D., Del Moro, A., Macera, P., Télouk, P., Albarède, F., 2000. Evidence from Sardinian basalt geochemistry for recycling of plume heads into the Earth’s mantle. Nature 408, 701–704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crook, T., Kemp, P.A., 2010. Transforming Private Landlords. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Lourenço, J.M., Farchi, E. (Eds.), 2013. Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools: International Conference, MUSEPAT 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 19-20, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gratzer, V., Naccache, D., 2006. Alien vs. Quine, the Vanishing Circuit and Other Tales from the Industry’s Crypt, in: Vaudenay, S. (Ed.), Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2006: 24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 28 - June 1, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 48–58.

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., 2015. Little Farmer, Big Pharma: The Quest To Modify Plants To ‘Grow’ Medicines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/little-farmer-big-pharma-quest-modify-plants-grow-medicines/ (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, 1976. Contract Award by the Federal Power Commission for Developing and Installing a Regulatory Information System (No. RED-76-59). 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

Khojandi, N., 2017. Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; A Contest of 2 Generations, Molded by 2 Different Wars. New York Times 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015; White, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bishopp and Bennett, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Gasperini et al., 2000)

About the journal

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