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

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

Fauci, A.S., 2003. Biodefence on the research agenda. Nature 421, 787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice, S.A., Haselkorn, R., 2012. Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011). Nature 481, 266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perrin, R.J., Fagan, A.M., Holtzman, D.M., 2009. Multimodal techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 461, 916–922.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Borozdin, K.N., Hogan, G.E., Morris, C., Priedhorsky, W.C., Saunders, A., Schultz, L.J., Teasdale, M.E., 2003. Surveillance: Radiographic imaging with cosmic-ray muons. Nature 422, 277.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M.R., Hossain, M.E., Moussavizadegan, S.H., Mustafiz, S., Abou&xKassem, J.H., 2016. Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Scholl, H.P.N., Massof, R.W., West, S. (Eds.), 2013. Ophthalmology and the Ageing Society, Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vu, Q.H., Lupu, M., Ooi, B.C., 2010. Data-Centric Applications, in: Lupu, M., Ooi, B.C. (Eds.), Peer-to-Peer Computing: Principles and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 81–126.

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 Monetary Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. How A Simple Vitamin B Prescription Could Help People With Alzheimer’s [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2001. Highway Infrastructure: FHWA’s Model for Estimating Highway Needs Has Been Modified for State-Level Planning (No. GAO-01-299). 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

Best, W., 2009. Beneath the Silence (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

Pilon, M., 2013. Judges of a Graceful Sport, Caught in a Clumsy Cheating Scandal. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fauci, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fauci, 2003; Rice and Haselkorn, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Haselkorn, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Borozdin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Monetary Economics
Abbreviation	J. Monet. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0304-3932
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance