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

Browne, Janet. 2008. Birthdays to remember. Nature 456: 324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qu, Shi-Wei, and Zai-Ping Nie. 2013. Plasmonic nanopatch array for optical integrated circuit applications. Scientific reports 3: 3172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Isakov, Sergei V., Roger G. Melko, and Matthew B. Hastings. 2012. Universal signatures of fractionalized quantum critical points. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 193–195.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Graps, A. L., E. Grun, H. Svedhem, H. Kruger, M. Horanyl, A. Heck, and S. Lammers. 2000. Io as a source of the jovian dust streams. Nature 405: 48–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, Annerose, Bernhard Behle, Dieter Lischewski, and Wolfgang Rein. 2002. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

El Oualkadi, Ahmed, Fethi Choubani, and Ali El Moussati, ed. 2016. Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015: MedCT 2015 Volume 2. Vol. 381. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolini, Carlo, Bruno Lepri, Stefano Teso, and Andrea Passerini. 2010. From On-Going to Complete Activity Recognition Exploiting Related Activities. In Human Behavior Understanding: First International Workshop, HBU 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 22, 2010. Proceedings, ed. Albert Ali Salah, Theo Gevers, Nicu Sebe, and Alessandro Vinciarelli, 26–37. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Watch Elon Musk’s Moving “Solid Metal Snake” Charge A Tesla Car. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 8.

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. 2014. Army Networks: Select Programs Are Utilizing Competition to Varying Degrees. GAO-14-460. 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

Leonard Puppa, Elaine L. 2010. Duration of case management: Correlation with Medicaid pediatric patient outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kwak, James. 2017. Getting Away With It. New York Times, July 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Browne 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Browne 2008; Qu and Nie 2013).

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

Two authors: (Qu and Nie 2013)
Three or more authors: (Graps et al. 2000)

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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