How to format your references using the Econometrica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Econometrica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Butler, D. (2000): “Europe agrees to boost Internet networks used by researchers,” Nature, 405, 261–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zoncu, R., and D. M. Sabatini. (2011): “Cell biology. The TASCC of secretion,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 332, 923–25.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, H., M. Martina, and P. Jonas. (2010): “Dendritic mechanisms underlying rapid synaptic activation of fast-spiking hippocampal interneurons,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 327, 52–58.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Calais, E., G. Mattioli, C. DeMets, J.-M. Nocquet, S. Stein, A. Newman, and P. Rydelek. (2005): “Seismology: tectonic strain in plate interiors?,” Nature, 438, E9-10; discussion E10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisen, P. S., and R. Raghuvanshi. (2013): Emerging Epidemics, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jackson, M., D. Nelson, and S. Stirk, eds. (2005): Database: Enterprise, Skills and Innovation: 22nd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 22, Sunderland, UK, July 5-7, 2005. Proceedings, . Vol. 3567. Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceBerlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, G., X. Wang, X. Liu, and Q. Li. (2012): “Diversity and Biogeochemical Function of Planktonic Fungi in the Ocean,” in Biology of Marine Fungi, ed. by Raghukumar, C. . Progress in Molecular and Subcellular BiologyBerlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 71–88.

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 Econometrica.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015): “3D-Printed Smart Bottle Cap Could Tell You When Your Food Has Expired,” IFLScience, IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-smart-cap-could-tell-you-when-your-food-has-expired/, Accessed 10/30/2018.

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. (1995): FDA Import Automation: Serious Management and Systems Development Problems Persist,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

Robinson, A. C. (2017): “A Geophysical and Geological Characterization of the Bonanza 3D Survey, Claiborne Group, Saint Landry and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana,” Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016): “Review: A Crooked Cop Is Caught Between 2 Brutal Masters in ‘Asura: The City of Madness,’” New York Times, .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler (2000)).
This sentence cites two references (Butler (2000); Zoncu and Sabatini (2011)).

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

Two authors: (Zoncu and Sabatini (2011))
Three authors: (Hu, Martina, and Jonas (2010))
4 or more authors: (Calais et al. (2005))

About the journal

Full journal title	Econometrica
Abbreviation	Econometrica
ISSN (print)	0012-9682
ISSN (online)	1468-0262
Scope	Economics and Econometrics