How to format your references using the International Economic Journal citation style

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

Bayer, M. (2014). Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 158–159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beg, A. A., & Scheiffele, P. (2006). Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5763), 962–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeong, K.-H., Kim, J., & Lee, L. P. (2006). Biologically inspired artificial compound eyes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 557–561.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chen, J., Li, Z., Zhang, X., Xiao, J., & Gong, Q. (2013). Submicron bidirectional all-optical plasmonic switches. Scientific Reports, 3, 1451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D. (2009). Trump University Marketing 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

vom Brocke, J., & Schmiedel, T. (Eds.). (2015). BPM - Driving Innovation in a Digital World. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hwang, J.-I., Sung, M.-H., Kim, I.-J., Ahn, S. C., Kim, H.-G., & Ko, H. (2013). Painting Alive: Handheld Augmented Reality System for Large Targets. In R. Shumaker (Ed.), Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Augmented and Virtual Environments: 5th International Conference, VAMR 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 32–38). Springer.

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 International Economic Journal.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 27). First Trial of Pest-Resistant GM Wheat a Failure, Report Scientists. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-trial-pest-resistant-gm-wheat-failure-report-scientists/

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. (2011). Higher Education: Use of New Data Could Help Improve Oversight of Distance Education (GAO-12-39). 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

Zhuang, S. (2008). Enhancing Implicit Finite Element Sheet Forming Simulation [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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, November 20). A Paris Changed by Turmoil, a Century Ago. New York Times, C30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bayer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer, 2014; Beg & Scheiffele, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Beg & Scheiffele, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Economic Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Econ. J.
ISSN (print)	1016-8737
ISSN (online)	1743-517X
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance