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

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

Rouault, T.A., 2006. Biochemistry. If the RNA fits, use it. Science 314, 1886–1887.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flanagan, J.R., Johansson, R.S., 2003. Action plans used in action observation. Nature 424, 769–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, H., Cheng, Y.-C., Fleming, G.R., 2007. Coherence dynamics in photosynthesis: protein protection of excitonic coherence. Science 316, 1462–1465.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lens, L., Van Dongen, S., Norris, K., Githiru, M., Matthysen, E., 2002. Avian persistence in fragmented rainforest. Science 298, 1236–1238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu, X., Jiang, N., Ji, K., Li, H., Qiu, X., Li, W., Ji, X., Du, H., Sheng, B., Huang, H., 2017. Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Shen, G., Huang, X. (Eds.), 2011. Advanced Research on Electronic Commerce, Web Application, and Communication: International Conference, ECWAC 2011, Guangzhou, China, April 16-17, 2011. Proceedings, Part I, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Oh, S.Y., Harnsberger, C.R., Ramamoorthy, S.L., 2015. Operating Room Setup and General Techniques for Robotic Surgery, in: Bardakcioglu, O. (Ed.), Advanced Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Colorectal Surgery. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 25–33.

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 Econometrics.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Rising Atmospheric CO2 Has Lead To A Global “Greening” Effect [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, 2009. Telecommunications: Surveys of Consumers and of State Utility Commissions about Wireless Phone Service (GAO-10-35SP, November 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-10-34 (No. GAO-10-35SP). 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

Jones, G., 2009. The impact of song on repeated reading: An examination of comprehension, fluency, and engagement with texts of Hispanic second graders in a Title I urban school (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

Sisario, B., 2017. SoundCloud, Former Star In Streaming, Lays Off 173. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rouault, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Flanagan and Johansson, 2003; Rouault, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Flanagan and Johansson, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lens et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Econometrics
Abbreviation	J. Econom.
ISSN (print)	0304-4076
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Mathematics