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

Egolf, D.A., 2002. Statistical mechanics. Far from equilibrium. Science 296, 1813–1815.

A journal article with 2 authors

Panstruga, R., Dodds, P.N., 2009. Terrific protein traffic: the mystery of effector protein delivery by filamentous plant pathogens. Science 324, 748–750.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, G.-Z., Radtke, G., Botton, G.A., 2012. Bonding and structure of a reconstructed (001) surface of SrTiO3 from TEM. Nature 490, 384–387.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dawson, M.A., Bannister, A.J., Göttgens, B., Foster, S.D., Bartke, T., Green, A.R., Kouzarides, T., 2009. JAK2 phosphorylates histone H3Y41 and excludes HP1alpha from chromatin. Nature 461, 819–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Provost, J.J., Colabroy, K.L., Kelly, B.S., Wallert, M.A., 2016. The Science of Cooking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (Eds.), 2007. Vite matematiche: Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles, I blu. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, B., 2007. Nobel Peace Prize Winners: 1982–2006, in: Turner, B. (Ed.), The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World, The Stateman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 12–12.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Blue Origin Successfully Tests Crew Escape System In Major Step Towards Flying Space Tourists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-origin-tests-crew-escape-system-in-major-step-towards-space-tourism/ (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, 1975. Programs at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Panama (No. ID-76-27). 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

Alimo, C.J., 2010. From dialogue to action: The development of White racial allies (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2016. Finding Beauty Amid the Grit. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egolf, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Egolf, 2002; Panstruga and Dodds, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Panstruga and Dodds, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Dawson et al., 2009)

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

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