How to format your references using the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental 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:

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

Ball, P., 2002. Statistics: the physics of society. Nature 415, 371.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, K.M., Fialko, Y., 2012. “Melt welt” mechanism of extreme weakening of gabbro at seismic slip rates. Nature 488, 638–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bass, A.H., Gilland, E.H., Baker, R., 2008. Evolutionary origins for social vocalization in a vertebrate hindbrain-spinal compartment. Science 321, 417–421.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fixler, J.B., Foster, G.T., McGuirk, J.M., Kasevich, M.A., 2007. Atom interferometer measurement of the newtonian constant of gravity. Science 315, 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J.M., 2014. Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Laza, R., Schütt, M., Yui, N. (Eds.), 2015. Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics: Lecture Notes on Concentrated Graduate Courses, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Fields Institute Monographs. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Werfel, J., 2012. Collective Construction with Robot Swarms, in: Doursat, R., Sayama, H., Michel, O. (Eds.), Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 115–140.

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 Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Open Internet Campaigners Celebrate New EU Net Neutrality Guidelines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/open-internet-campaigners-celebrate-new-eu-net-neutrality-guidelines/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Competition in the Airline Computerized Reservation System Industry (No. T-RCED-88-62). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guzman, F., 2013. Terra Forming with You and Me (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Taking His Off-Season Cuts, Conforto Leaves Demotions Behind. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ball, 2002; Brown and Fialko, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Fialko, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Fixler et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Exp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2214-8043
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Psychology General Social Sciences