How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization citation style

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

Stone, R., 2011. Higher education. Crunch time for North Korea’s revolutionary new university. Science 334, 1624–1625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasetti, C., Vogelstein, B., 2015. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science 347, 78–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Steinman, B.A., Mann, M.E., Miller, S.K., 2015. Climate change. Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures. Science 347, 988–991.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kapitaniak, M., Lazarek, M., Nielaczny, M., Czolczynski, K., Perlikowski, P., Kapitaniak, T., 2014. Synchronization extends the life time of the desired behavior of globally coupled systems. Sci. Rep. 4, 4391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak, J.J., 2005. An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cockburn, J., Pawson, M.E. (Eds.), 2007. Psychological Challenges in Obstetrics and Gynecology: The Clinical Management. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Breu, J., Menth, M., 2014. An Improved Relevance Estimation Function for Cooperative Awareness Messages in VANETs, in: Sikora, A., Berbineau, M., Vinel, A., Jonsson, M., Pirovano, A., Aguado, M. (Eds.), Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 6th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–56.

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 Economic Behavior and Organization.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Russian Spacecraft Falling To Earth Poses No Danger – We Have Survived Bigger Objects [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/russian-spacecraft-falling-earth-poses-no-danger-we-have-survived-bigger-objects/ (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, 1978. Proposal for Replacement of Indian Health Service Hospital (No. HRD-78-124). 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

Whidby, M.A., 2012. Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Cox, R., Hay, G., 2011. When Numbers Eclipse Message. 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 (Stone, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Stone, 2011; Tomasetti and Vogelstein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tomasetti and Vogelstein, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kapitaniak et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Behav. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0167-2681
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics