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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Quantitative 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Nielsen, Mathias Wullum. 2015. Make academic job advertisements fair to all. Nature 525: 427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chhangani, Deepak, and Amit Mishra. 2013. Mahogunin ring finger-1 (MGRN1) suppresses chaperone-associated misfolded protein aggregation and toxicity. Scientific reports 3: 1972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harmon, Jason P., Nancy A. Moran, and Anthony R. Ives. 2009. Species response to environmental change: impacts of food web interactions and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 1347–1350.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shao, Zongping, Sossina M. Haile, Jeongmin Ahn, Paul D. Ronney, Zhongliang Zhan, and Scott A. Barnett. 2005. A thermally self-sustained micro solid-oxide fuel-cell stack with high power density. Nature 435: 795–798.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aichinger, Michael, and Andreas Binder. 2013. A Workout in Computational Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

de la Garza-Salazar, Jaime G., Abelardo Meneses-Garcia, and Claudia Arce-Salinas, ed. 2013. Inflammatory Breast Cancer. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoffstein, Jeffrey, Jill Pipher, and Joseph H. Silverman. 2014. Digital Signatures. In An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, ed. Jill Pipher and Joseph H. Silverman, 193–205. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Quantitative Economics.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. Zombifying Fungus Recognizes the Brain of its Favorite Host. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 26.

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. 1983. The Effects of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on FCC Operations. 122443. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Spanier, Adam Jason. 2008. The Relationship of Genes and Environment with Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma. Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Cooper, Michael. 2017. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera. New York Times, May 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nielsen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chhangani and Mishra 2013; Nielsen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chhangani and Mishra 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shao et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Quantitative Economics
Abbreviation	J. Quant. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0971-1554
ISSN (online)	2364-1045
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