How to format your references using the Journal of Bioeconomics citation style

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

Barratt, A. (2015). Perspective: The risks of overdiagnosis. Nature, 527(7578), S104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devos, D. P., & Reynaud, E. G. (2010). Evolution. Intermediate steps. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1187–1188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, B. W., Pruitt, B. L., & Nelson, W. J. (2015). Cell adhesion. Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin-dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6238), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alvarez, B., Martínez-A, C., Burgering, B. M., & Carrera, A. C. (2001). Forkhead transcription factors contribute to execution of the mitotic programme in mammals. Nature, 413(6857), 744–747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherniakov, M. (2003). An Introduction to Parametric Digital Filters and Oscillators. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Srivastava, S. (2010). Novel Biomaterials: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater. (P. Goyal, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Janke, W. (2007). Introduction to Simulation Techniques. In M. Henkel, M. Pleimling, & R. Sanctuary (Eds.), Ageing and the Glass Transition (pp. 207–260). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Bioeconomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 6). Marijuana May Affect Fertility of Young Men. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/marijuana-may-affect-fertility-young-men/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2011). Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Grants Management (No. GAO-12-158). 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

McGowan, H. C. (2008). The military experience: Perceptions from senior military officers’ wives (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Ganz, C., & Leland, J. (2017, May 18). Chris Cornell, Frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave, Dies at 52. New York Times, p. B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barratt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Barratt 2015; Devos and Reynaud 2010).

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

Two authors: (Devos and Reynaud 2010)
Three or more authors: (Alvarez et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Bioeconomics
Abbreviation	J. Bioecon.
ISSN (print)	1387-6996
ISSN (online)	1573-6989
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Geography, Planning and Development