How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control citation style

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

Vernos, I., 2013. Research management: Quotas are questionable. Nature 495, 39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chameides, W., Oppenheimer, M., 2007. Climate change. Carbon trading over taxes. Science 315, 1670.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke, R.C., Poo, M.-M., Dan, Y., 2005. Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature 434, 221–225.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coluzzi, M., Sabatini, A., della Torre, A., Di Deco, M.A., Petrarca, V., 2002. A polytene chromosome analysis of the Anopheles gambiae species complex. Science 298, 1415–1418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk, M.K., 2014. RF Power Amplifiers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shingareva, I., 2011. Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Maple and Mathematica. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Grossman, M., 2015. Disenchantments: Counter-Terror Narratives and Conviviality, in: Mansouri, F. (Ed.), Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations: The Multicultural Challenge. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–89.

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 Dynamics and Control.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Titanium Dioxide Roofs Could Fight Air Pollution [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, 1993. Mass Transit: Federal Participation in Transit Benefit Programs (No. T-RCED-93-72). 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

Glassett Farrelly, S., 2013. Understanding Alternative Education: A Mixed Methods Examination of Student Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Kelly, C., 2013. Tarrytown, N.Y., Charms Residents and Retailers. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vernos, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chameides and Oppenheimer, 2007; Vernos, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chameides and Oppenheimer, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Coluzzi et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Dyn. Control
ISSN (print)	0165-1889
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Mathematics Control and Optimization