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

Johnson, C. (2009). Paleontology. Megafaunal decline and fall. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1072–1073.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dutcher, J. R., & Ediger, M. D. (2008). Materials science. Glass surfaces not so glassy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5863), 577–578.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paggi, M., Pohrt, R., & Popov, V. L. (2014). Partial-slip frictional response of rough surfaces. Scientific reports, 4, 5178.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Farrow, N., Miller, D., Cmielewski, P., Donnelley, M., Bright, R., & Parsons, D. W. (2013). Airway gene transfer in a non-human primate: lentiviral gene expression in marmoset lungs. Scientific reports, 3, 1287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schlechty, P. C. (2009). Leading for Learning. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Boccaccini, A. R., & Harding, S. E. (Eds.). (2011). Myocardial Tissue Engineering (Vol. 6). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Norling, E. (2007). Contrasting a System Dynamics Model and an Agent-Based Model of Food Web Evolution. In L. Antunes & K. Takadama (Eds.), Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers (pp. 57–68). 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, August 9). The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks TONIGHT - Don’t Miss It! IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dont-miss-annual-perseid-meteor-showers/. 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. (1987). ADP Systems: SSA’s Modernization Efforts Need Redirection (No. IMTEC-87-16). 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

Liang, M. (2012). Information, communication and wayfinding: Technology shows us the world (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

Chang, S. (2006, February 11). High School Student Charged In Death of Newborn Daughter. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dutcher and Ediger 2008; Johnson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dutcher and Ediger 2008)
Three or more authors: (Farrow 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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