How to format your references using the Journal of The Japanese and International Economies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of The Japanese and International Economies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lammert, E., 2008. Developmental biology. Brain Wnts for blood vessels. Science 322, 1195–1196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keightley, P.D., Otto, S.P., 2006. Interference among deleterious mutations favours sex and recombination in finite populations. Nature 443, 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baugh, L.R., Demodena, J., Sternberg, P.W., 2009. RNA Pol II accumulates at promoters of growth genes during developmental arrest. Science 324, 92–94.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stein, E., Zou, Y., Poo, M., Tessier-Lavigne, M., 2001. Binding of DCC by netrin-1 to mediate axon guidance independent of adenosine A2B receptor activation. Science 291, 1976–1982.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D., 2012. Visual Guide to Financial Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhou, L., Xu, W., Cheng, Q., Zhao, H. (Eds.), 2016. Underwater Acoustics and Ocean Dynamics: Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Gavryushenko, D.A., Sysoev, V.M., Matzui, L.Y., Golub, O.A., Prylutskyy, Y.I., Ogloblya, O.V., Scharff, P., Gogotsi, Y., 2005. Calculation of the Density Profile of Liquid Located in the Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube, in: Buzaneva, E., Scharff, Peter (Eds.), Frontiers of Multifunctional Integrated Nanosystems, NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 23–30.

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 Japanese and International Economies.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. 100 years of Dog Breeding – Before And After [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/100-years-of-dog-breeding-before-and-after/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. Does DOD Need a Dedicated System of High Altitude Satellites To Meet Its Strategic Communications Requirements for the Next Decade? (No. LCD-80-59). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nasiriamini, S., 2010. The need for adaptive network application architectures (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

de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. Elliott Hedge Fund Tries to Beat Buffett’s Offer for Utility Operator. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lammert, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Keightley and Otto, 2006; Lammert, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Keightley and Otto, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Stein et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
Abbreviation	J. Jpn. Int. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0889-1583
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance Political Science and International Relations