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

Padma, T.V., 2005. Ayurveda. Nature 436, 486.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trenberth, K.E., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., 2003. Paleoclimate. Toward integrated reconstruction of past climates. Science 300, 589–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dvorak, M., Oswald, W., Wu, Z., 2013. Bandgap opening by patterning graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 2289.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, M., Arulandu, A., Struck, D.K., Swanson, S., Sacchettini, J.C., Young, R., 2005. Disulfide isomerization after membrane release of its SAR domain activates P1 lysozyme. Science 307, 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sawant, R.J., 2010. Infrastructure Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J. (Eds.), 2016. Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Steinert, M., Teufel, S., 2005. The European Mobile Data Service Dilemma, in: Krogstie, J., Kautz, K., Allen, D. (Eds.), Mobile Information Systems II: IFIP International Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems, (MOBIS) Leeds, UK, December 6–7, 2005, IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 63–78.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015. Fisherman Fends Off Shark With Kayak Paddle [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fisherman-fends-shark-kayak-paddle/ (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, 2004. Tax Policy: Historical Tax Treatment of INTELSAT and Current Tax Rules for Satellite Corporations (No. GAO-04-994). 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

Orozco, M., 2015. Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Sisario, B., 2017. DJ Khaled Hits Top Of Billboard Chart. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Padma, 2005; Trenberth and Otto-Bliesner, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Trenberth and Otto-Bliesner, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2005)

About the journal

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

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