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

Bosch, X., 2000. Spain in quandary over French synchrotron. Nature 405, 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seibel, B.A., Walsh, P.J., 2001. Carbon cycle. Potential impacts of CO2 injection on deep-sea biota. Science 294, 319–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott, L., Timmermann, A., Thunell, R., 2007. Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming. Science 318, 435–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krasilnikov, A.S., Xiao, Y., Pan, T., Mondragón, A., 2004. Basis for structural diversity in homologous RNAs. Science 306, 104–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The American Ceramic Society, 2009. Progress in Nanotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fiechter, A., Sautter, C. (Eds.), 2007. Green Gene Technology: Research in an Area of Social Conflict, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gruber, H., Holzer, M., 2008. Finite Automata, Digraph Connectivity, and Regular Expression Size, in: Aceto, L., Damgård, I., Goldberg, L.A., Halldórsson, M.M., Ingólfsdóttir, A., Walukiewicz, I. (Eds.), Automata, Languages and Programming: 35th International Colloquium, ICALP 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 7-11, 2008, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–50.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Dwarf Galaxies Produce More Than Their Fair Share Of Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxies-produce-more-their-fair-share-stars/ (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, 1979. Citizenship and Residency Requirements for Government Student Loans (No. FGMSD-80-25). 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

Rodriguez, P.J., 2013. “Stepping stones”: Empowering mental health patients through connections with significant others: A grant proposal (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

Erlanger, S., Bennhold, K., Castle, S., 2017. Britain’s Rebuke Of Its Leadership Upends E.U. Exit. 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 (Bosch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bosch, 2000; Seibel and Walsh, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Seibel and Walsh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Krasilnikov et al., 2004)

About the journal

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