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

Reichhardt, T. (2000). Safety concerns force NASA to condemn satellite to fiery end. Nature, 404(6777), 423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chu, S., & Majumdar, A. (2012). Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future. Nature, 488(7411), 294–303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka, S., Sawaya, M. R., & Yeates, T. O. (2010). Structure and mechanisms of a protein-based organelle in Escherichia coli. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 81–84.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Q. M., Li, H., Poh, M., Xia, F., Cheng, Z.-Y., Xu, H., & Huang, C. (2002). An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant. Nature, 419(6904), 284–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Westermeier, R. (2004). Electrophoresis in Practice. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Peters, S., & Besse, B. (Eds.). (2015). New Therapeutic Strategies in Lung Cancers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam, J., Guerin, F., Vasconcelos, W., & Norman, T. J. (2010). Building Multi-Agent Systems for Workflow Enactment and Exception Handling. In J. Padget, A. Artikis, W. Vasconcelos, K. Stathis, V. T. da Silva, E. Matson, & A. Polleres (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops. COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 53–69). 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

Hale, T. (2016, October 7). This Massive Cyber Attack Shows Why You Should Change Your Default Passwords. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2017). 2015 Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Rule: Comparison of DOT Forecasts for Selected Data Points for 2015 and 2016 to Preliminary Data for Those Years (No. GAO-17-567R). 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

Prasad, A. B. (2010). Analyzing comparative sequence data to understand genome function and evolution (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017, January 6). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chu and Majumdar 2012; Reichhardt 2000).

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

Two authors: (Chu and Majumdar 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2002)

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