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

Nordhaus, W., 2007. Economics. Critical assumptions in the Stern Review on climate change. Science 317, 201–202.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard, T.D., Cooper, J.A., 2009. Actin, a central player in cell shape and movement. Science 326, 1208–1212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sanders, T.A., Llagostera, E., Barna, M., 2013. Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning. Nature 497, 628–632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu, Y.-L., Lu, S., Szeto, K.W., Sun, J., Wang, Y., Lasheras, J.C., Chien, S., 2014. FAK and paxillin dynamics at focal adhesions in the protrusions of migrating cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuzmeski, M., 2009. The Connectors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Harrison, S.D., Welch, G.F., Adler, A. (Eds.), 2012. Perspectives on Males and Singing, Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Gorenstein, M.I., 2006. CRITICAL LINE OF THE DECONFINEMENT PHASE TRANSITIONS, in: Čechák, T., Jenkovszky, L., Karpenko, I. (Eds.), Nuclear Science and Safety in Europe, NATO Security through Science Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 49–67.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Sensing Gravity With Acid [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sensing-gravity-acid/ (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, 2005. Freight Transportation: Short Sea Shipping Option Shows Importance of Systematic Approach to Public Investment Decisions (No. GAO-05-768). 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

Sahebjame, M., 2012. Marriage: An authentic Iranian experience of the modern (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

Walsh, M.W., de la MERCED, M.J., 2010. A.I.G. Chairman Resigns, Citing Clash With Chief. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nordhaus, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Nordhaus, 2007; Pollard and Cooper, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pollard and Cooper, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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