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

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

Ellsworth, W. L. (2006). Earthquake anniversary. Halfway through Reid’s cycle and counting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5771), 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. G., & Dye, C. (2003). Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1535–1537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logvenov, G., Gozar, A., & Bozovic, I. (2009). High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5953), 699–702.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kapoor, T. M., Lampson, M. A., Hergert, P., Cameron, L., Cimini, D., Salmon, E. D., et al. (2006). Chromosomes can congress to the metaphase plate before biorientation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5759), 388–391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. (2006). Spacecraft Sensors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W. J., Hartmann, S., Uebel, T., & Weber, M. (Eds.). (2011). Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation (Vol. 2). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Looney, D., Kidmose, P., & Mandic, D. P. (2014). Ear-EEG: User-Centered and Wearable BCI. In C. Guger, B. Allison, & E. C. Leuthardt (Eds.), Brain-Computer Interface Research: A State-of-the-Art Summary -2 (pp. 41–50). 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 Regulatory Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 3). Does A Planet Need Plate Tectonics To Develop Life? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/does-a-planet-need-plate-tectonics-to-develop-life/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1975). Contractors’ Independent Research and Development (No. 094624). 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

Thompson, A. J. (2003). Textiles as Indicators of Hopewellian Culture Burial Practices (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Otis, J. (2016, December 28). Relying on Strict Regimen to Keep Addiction at Bay. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellsworth 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ellsworth 2006; Williams and Dye 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Dye 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kapoor et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Regulatory Economics
Abbreviation	J. Regul. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0922-680X
ISSN (online)	1573-0468
Scope	Economics and Econometrics