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

Holden, C. 2000. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY: Institute Goes to Court to Remove Researcher. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 683b–5b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker, Joanne L., and Simon Newstead. 2014. Molecular basis of nitrate uptake by the plant nitrate transporter NRT1.1. Nature 507: 68–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mo, Yifei, Kevin T. Turner, and Izabela Szlufarska. 2009. Friction laws at the nanoscale. Nature 457: 1116–1119.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Opheij, Aron, Nir Rotenberg, Daryl M. Beggs, Isabella H. Rey, Thomas F. Krauss, and L. Kuipers. 2013. Ultracompact (3 μm) silicon slow-light optical modulator. Scientific reports 3: 3546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rubin, Andrey B. 2014. Fundamentals of Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Androulidakis, Iosif. 2016. Industrial Espionage and Technical Surveillance Counter Measurers. Edited by Fragkiskos –. Emmanouil Kioupakis. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Purkayastha, Basab Bijoy, and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma. 2015. Basic Considerations of PLL and Its Types. In A Digital Phase Locked Loop based Signal and Symbol Recovery System for Wireless Channel, ed. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, 89–101. Signals and Communication Technology. New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Hale, Tom. 2016. Top NASA Climate Scientist Says Temperatures Are Rising At Fastest Rate In 1,000 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 31.

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. 1986. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations]. B-221498.20. 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

Wilkinson, Brian. 2017. You Got to Pray Just to Make It Today: The Relationship between Disclosure Disconnects, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment among Atheistic Employees. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. Justices Ready to Answer Detainee Rights Question. New York Times, December 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Holden 2000; Parker and Newstead 2014).

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

Two authors: (Parker and Newstead 2014)
Three or more authors: (Opheij et al. 2013)

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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