How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Veis A (2005) Materials science. A window on biomineralization. Science 307:1419–1420

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephenson NL, Das AJ (2011) Comment on “Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations.” Science 334:177; author reply 177

A journal article with 3 authors

Tellis JC, Primer DN, Molander GA (2014) Dual catalysis. Single-electron transmetalation in organoboron cross-coupling by photoredox/nickel dual catalysis. Science 345:433–436

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mashiko D, Fujihara Y, Satouh Y, et al (2013) Generation of mutant mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA. Sci Rep 3:3355

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mittleman AL (2011) A Short History of Jewish Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Werse B, Bernard C (eds) (2016) Friendly Business: International Views on Social Supply, Self-Supply and Small-Scale Drug Dealing. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Rainieri S, Zambonelli C (2009) Organisms Associated with Acetic Acid Bacteria in Vinegar Production. In: Solieri L, Giudici P (eds) Vinegars of the World. Springer, Milano, pp 73–95

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 Interaction and Coordination.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Alien-Like Lobster Found In Nova Scotia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alien-lobster-found-nova-scotia/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1989) Standards and Technology: Impact of Fee Increases on Measurement Services. 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

Salamah H (2012) Potential barriers to seeking medical care: Does obesity and/or self-esteem result in decreased frequency of necessary medical office visits? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shpigel B (2017) Gonzaga Gets Closer to an Elusive Berth. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veis 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Veis 2005; Stephenson and Das 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stephenson and Das 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mashiko et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Interact. Coord.
ISSN (print)	1860-711X
ISSN (online)	1860-7128
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics