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

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

Brumfiel, G., 2003. Cosmology: welcome to the real world. Nature 426, 751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ikehara, T., Kataoka, T., 2013. Relation between the helical twist and S-shaped cross section of the lamellar crystals of polyethylene. Sci. Rep. 3, 1444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, J.E., Melosh, H.J., Greenberg, R., 2004. Impact-induced seismic activity on asteroid 433 Eros: a surface modification process. Science 306, 1526–1529.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brashares, J.S., Arcese, P., Sam, M.K., Coppolillo, P.B., Sinclair, A.R.E., Balmford, A., 2004. Bushmeat hunting, wildlife declines, and fish supply in West Africa. Science 306, 1180–1183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H., 2017. Project Management Case Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huerta, J., Schade, S., Granell, C. (Eds.), 2014. Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Biskup, J., Bonatti, P., 2006. Controlled Query Evaluation with Open Queries for a Decidable Relational Submodel, in: Dix, J., Hegner, S.J. (Eds.), Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 4th International Symposium, FoIKS 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Februrary 14-17, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–62.

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 Public Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Deer Oh Deer – A Baby That Fits In the Palm Of Your Hand [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deer-oh-deer-–-baby-fits-palm-your-hand/ (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, 2016. Unemployment Insurance: Various Factors Affect Head Start and Other Early Childhood Teachers’ Eligibility for Benefits (No. GAO-17-34). 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

Meyer, M.A., 2014. Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Mediterranean Mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis (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

Hubbard, B., 2016. Smiling as Syria Burns, Assad Remains Secure in Power and Impunity. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2003; Ikehara and Kataoka, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ikehara and Kataoka, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Brashares et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Public Economics
Abbreviation	J. Public Econ.
ISSN (print)	0047-2727
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance