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

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

Milburn, G.J., 2010. Physics. Quantum measurement and control of single spins in diamond. Science 330, 1188–1189.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborne, I., Coontz, R., 2008. Quantum wonderland. Introduction to special issue. Science 319, 1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, E.D., Guyer, M.S., National Human Genome Research Institute, 2011. Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside. Nature 470, 204–213.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, Y., Josefowicz, S.Z., Kas, A., Chu, T.-T., Gavin, M.A., Rudensky, A.Y., 2007. Genome-wide analysis of Foxp3 target genes in developing and mature regulatory T cells. Nature 445, 936–940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saadoun, A.P., 2012. Esthetic Soft Tissue Management of Teeth and Implants. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Groettrup, M. (Ed.), 2010. Conjugation and Deconjugation of Ubiquitin Family Modifiers: Subcellular Biochemistry, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Palokangas, T., 2014. One-Parameter GHG Emission Policy with R&D-Based Growth, in: Moser, E., Semmler, W., Tragler, G., Veliov, V.M. (Eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 111–126.

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 Comparative Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Rosetta Witnesses The Origins of Meteors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1982. National Science Foundation Management Review of Research Grant Award Recommendations (No. PAD-82-49). 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

Moulder, J.C., 2010. Comparative analgesic effects of prepulse inhibition and reduced voltage waveforms in defibrillation (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kasich, J., 2017. End Partisan Warfare on Health Care. New York Times A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Milburn, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Milburn, 2010; Osborne and Coontz, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Osborne and Coontz, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Economics
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0147-5967
Scope	Economics and Econometrics