How to format your references using the Journal of Asian Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Economics. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Gandhi, K. J. K. (2015). The best decision I ever made. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6264), 1122.
A journal article with 2 authors
Birchler, J. A., & Kavi, H. H. (2008). Molecular biology. Slicing and dicing for small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5879), 1023–1024.
A journal article with 3 authors
Finkel, T., Deng, C.-X., & Mostoslavsky, R. (2009). Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins. Nature, 460(7255), 587–591.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Vieites, D. R., Nieto-Román, S., Barluenga, M., Palanca, A., Vences, M., & Meyer, A. (2004). Post-mating clutch piracy in an amphibian. Nature, 431(7006), 305–308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gaisford, S., & Saunders, M. (2012). Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Chakrabarti, A. (Ed.). (2015). ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education (Vol. 34). Springer India.
A chapter in an edited book
Antonucci, A., & Piatti, A. (2009). Modeling Unreliable Observations in Bayesian Networks by Credal Networks. In L. Godo & A. Pugliese (Eds.), Scalable Uncertainty Management: Third International Conference, SUM 2009, Washington, DC, USA, September 28-30, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 28–39). 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 Journal of Asian Economics.

Blog post
Hale, T. (2017, May 5). Denmark Has A Wild Wolf Pack For The First Time In 200 Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/denmark-has-a-wild-wolf-pack-for-the-first-time-in-200-years/

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. (1994). Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Plans to Close and Contract Out Low-Activity Towers (RCED-94-265). 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
Kingston, S. E. (2012). Genome-wide analysis of divergence and introgression in towhee hybrid zones [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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
Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, July 6). A Network vs. the President. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gandhi, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Birchler & Kavi, 2008; Gandhi, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Birchler & Kavi, 2008)
  • Three or more authors: (Vieites et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Asian Economics
AbbreviationJ. Asian Econ.
ISSN (print)1049-0078
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics
Finance

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