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

Goldberg, D. E. (2002). Parasitology. When the host is smarter than the parasite. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), 482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blume-Jensen, P., & Hunter, T. (2001). Oncogenic kinase signalling. Nature, 411(6835), 355–365.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Political science. Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6239), 1130–1132.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Tao, M., Kubik, P. W., Ivy-Ochs, S., Gao, B., & Strecker, M. R. (2002). Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia. Nature, 417(6887), 428–432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ciana, P. (2011). New Frontiers in Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mukhopadhyay, S. C., & Lay-Ekuakille, A. (Eds.). (2010). Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems (Vol. 55). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bolatkale, M., Breems, L. J., & Makinwa, K. A. A. (2014). A 4 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC. In L. J. Breems & K. A. A. Makinwa (Eds.), High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs (pp. 73–93). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2015, January 9). Study Concludes That Women Who Squirt During Sex Are Actually Peeing. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-squirting-during-sex-may-actually-be-peeing/. 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. (1997). Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations (No. HEHS-97-104). 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

Sowers, P. A. (2012). “Klanaheim”: Suburbia, civic identity, and the second Ku Klux Klan (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, L. (2010, May 11). Just Answer the Question. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldberg 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blume-Jensen and Hunter 2001; Goldberg 2002).

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

Two authors: (Blume-Jensen and Hunter 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hetzel 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