How to format your references using the Journal of the Economic Science Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Economic Science Association. 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

Cripton, P. A. (2013). Perspective: Protecting the neck. Nature, 503(7475), S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sakaguchi, S., & Powrie, F. (2007). Emerging challenges in regulatory T cell function and biology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5838), 627–629.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumarevel, T., Mizuno, H., & Kumar, P. K. R. (2005). Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand. Nature, 434(7030), 183–191.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baek, S. K., Yi, I. G., Park, H. J., & Kim, B. J. (2013). Universal statistics of the knockout tournament. Scientific reports, 3, 3198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Souza de Cursi, E. (2015). Variational Methods for Engineers with Matlab®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Luján, H. D., & Svärd, S. (Eds.). (2011). Giardia: A Model Organism. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boukayoua, F., Vossaert, J., De Decker, B., & Naessens, V. (2012). Claim-Based versus Network-Based Identity Management: A Hybrid Approach. In A. U. Schmidt, G. Russello, I. Krontiris, & S. Lian (Eds.), Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems: 4th International Conference, MobiSec 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 25-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 38–50). 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 the Economic Science Association.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 4). Large Hadron Collider Is Back To Change Our Understanding Of The Universe … Again. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/large-hadron-collider-back-change-our-understanding-universe-again/. 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. (2003). Space Station: Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle Fleet (No. GAO-03-1107). 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

Frieberg, A. (2008). The Project of Reconciliation: Journalists and religious activists in Polish -German relations, 1956–1972 (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Southall, A., & Schweber, N. (2016, April 28). Robbery Suspect Trying to Hide During Roundup Falls to His Death. 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 (Cripton 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cripton 2013; Sakaguchi and Powrie 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sakaguchi and Powrie 2007)
Three or more authors: (Baek et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Economic Science Association
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Sci. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	2199-6776
ISSN (online)	2199-6784
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