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

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

McMurray, B.: Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science. 317, 631 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsieh, J., Schneider, J.W.: Neuroscience. Neural stem cells, excited. Science. 339, 1534–1535 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggs, F., Mangun, G.R., Usrey, W.M.: Attention enhances synaptic efficacy and the signal-to-noise ratio in neural circuits. Nature. 499, 476–480 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Berkley, A.J., Xu, H., Ramos, R.C., Gubrud, M.A., Strauch, F.W., Johnson, P.R., Anderson, J.R., Dragt, A.J., Lobb, C.J., Wellstood, F.C.: Entangled macroscopic quantum States in two superconducting qubits. Science. 300, 1548–1550 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W., Wan, M.: Milling Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Bouabana-Tebibel, T., Rubin, S.H. eds: Integration of Reusable Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Parida, S., Couacy-Hymann, E., Pope, R.A., Mahapatra, M., Harrak, M.E., Brownlie, J., Banyard, A.C.: Pathology of Peste des Petits Ruminants. In: Munir, M. (ed.) Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus. pp. 51–67. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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 Inequality.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Some Of Your Suntan Comes From Beyond The Milky Way

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: Social Security Numbers: Stronger Protections Needed When Contractors Have Access to SSNs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sundell, M.: From fine art to fashion: Man Ray’s ambivalent avant-garde, (2009)

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

Barnard, A., Gordon, M.R.: Aid Convoy Is Hit in Syria as Cease-Fire Falters and Bombings Resume, (2016)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Economic Inequality
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Inequal.
ISSN (print)	1569-1721
ISSN (online)	1573-8701
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Sociology and Political Science