How to format your references using the The Journal of Economic Asymmetries citation style

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

Camerer, C. F. (2003). Psychology and economics. Strategizing in the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1673–1675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miles, L., & Kapos, V. (2008). Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: global land-use implications. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1454–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baird, P., Downie, J., & Thompson, J. (2002). Medicine. Clinical trials and industry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2211.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Cande, S. C., Stock, J. M., Muller, R. D., & Ishihara, T. (2000). Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica. Nature, 404(6774), 145–150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa, T. F. (2008). Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gutierrez, J., Schicho, J., & Weimann, M. (Eds.). (2015). Computer Algebra and Polynomials: Applications of Algebra and Number Theory (Vol. 8942). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carpentieri, G., Fraternali, F., & Skelton, R. E. (2016). A Tensegrity Paradigm for Minimal Mass Design of Roofs and Bridges. In K. Weinberg & A. Pandolfi (Eds.), Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems: In Honor of Michael Ortiz’s 60th Birthday (pp. 91–114). 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 The Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 31). Five New Species Of Flying Monkey Described. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1999). IRS Management: Business and Systems Modernization Pose Challenges (T-GGD/AIMD-99-138). 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

Slabaugh, J. L. (2012). The Occurrence of Alternans and Arrhythmias in a Multicellular, Cardiac Preparation [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, July 20). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Chechen Issues New Threat. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Camerer, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Camerer, 2003; Miles & Kapos, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Miles & Kapos, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cande et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Asymmetries
ISSN (print)	1703-4949
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance