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

Hatfull, G. F. (2001). Microbiology. The great escape. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5525), 2263–2264.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance, W. F., & Balmford, A. (2013). Land use: A global map for road building. Nature, 495(7441), 308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliveira, E. A., Andrade, J. S., Jr, & Makse, H. A. (2014). Large cities are less green. Scientific reports, 4, 4235.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jorgensen, P., Nishikawa, J. L., Breitkreutz, B.-J., & Tyers, M. (2002). Systematic identification of pathways that couple cell growth and division in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 395–400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker, U. (2005). Solar Technologies for Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Denz, C., Flach, S., & Kivshar, Y. S. (Eds.). (2010). Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials (Vol. 150). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tokalaki, A., Michailidis, A., Partalidou, M., & Theodossiou, G. (2016). Crisis and Social Capital in Greece: A Comparative Study Between Rural and Urban Communities. In A. Karasavvoglou, Z. Aranđelović, S. Marinković, & P. Polychronidou (Eds.), The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis: Economic and Social Developments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe (pp. 61–71). 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 the Economic Science Association.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, April 5). Stunning Video Depicts Cassini Spacecraft’s Dramatic End. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-prepares-for-its-epic-grand-finale-mission-between-saturn-and-its-rings/. 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. (1977). Claim of Raines High School for Advertisements Placed in the School Yearbook and Newspaper (No. B-187099-O.M). 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

Copeland, E. J. (2010). A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness (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

Vecsey, G. (2011, June 9). Remembering Waitz, a Champion and Companion. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hatfull 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hatfull 2001; Laurance and Balmford 2013).

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

Two authors: (Laurance and Balmford 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jorgensen et al. 2002)

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
Scope

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