How to format your references using the Journal of Cultural Economy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cultural Economy. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Butler, D. 2000. “French Take Physics Archives into the Future.” Nature 407 (6806): 825.
A journal article with 2 authors
Giovannoni, Stephen J., and Ulrich Stingl. 2005. “Molecular Diversity and Ecology of Microbial Plankton.” Nature 437 (7057): 343–348.
A journal article with 3 authors
Robinson, J. W. A., J. D. S. Witt, and M. G. Blamire. 2010. “Controlled Injection of Spin-Triplet Supercurrents into a Strong Ferromagnet.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5987): 59–61.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Diamond, Adele, W. Steven Barnett, Jessica Thomas, and Sarah Munro. 2007. “Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5855): 1387–1388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Schuenemeyer, John H., and Lawrence J. Drew. 2010. Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Amerio, Luigi, ed. 2011. Equazioni Differenziali Astratte. Vol. 29. C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Tapia, Dante I., Óscar García, Ricardo S. Alonso, Fabio Guevara, Jorge Catalina, Raúl A. Bravo, and Juan Manuel Corchado. 2012. “Evaluating the N-Core Polaris Real-Time Locating System in an Indoor Environment.” In Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, edited by Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez, Javier Bajo Pérez, Paulina Golinska, Sylvain Giroux, and Rafael Corchuelo, 29–37. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. 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 Cultural Economy.

Blog post
Andrew, Elise. 2015. “The Water Industry Needs To Join The Fight Against Superbugs.” IFLScience, IFLScience, February 9. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/water-industry-needs-join-fight-against-superbugs/.

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. 1999. Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks. AIMD-99-35. 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
Batistick, Susan Ashley. 2015. “Reclaiming One’s Gold: Imagining the Inner Child Through the Art of Therapeutic Fairy Tale Writing.” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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
Kishkovsky, Sophia. 1998. “With a New Western Arrival, Moscow Rocks.” New York Times, November 1, 1998.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2000; Giovannoni and Stingl 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Giovannoni and Stingl 2005)
  • Three authors: (Robinson, Witt, and Blamire 2010)
  • 4 or more authors: (Diamond et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Cultural Economy
AbbreviationJ. Cult. Econ.
ISSN (print)1753-0350
ISSN (online)1753-0369
ScopeCultural Studies

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