How to format your references using the Journal of Economic Psychology citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Reversal of fortune. Nature, 433(7026), 663.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wapenaar, K., & Snieder, R. (2007). Determinism: Chaos tamed. Nature, 447(7145), 643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2002). Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 553–554.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Howard, D. J., Marshall, J. L., Braswell, W. E., & Coyne, J. A. (2001). Examining evidence of reproductive isolation in sockeye salmon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5510), 1853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1993). Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pinheiro-Franco, J. L., Vaccaro, A. R., Benzel, E. C., & Mayer, H. M. (Eds.). (2016). Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease (1st ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Battaglini, L., Burrascano, P., Canova, A., Ficili, F., Ricci, M., Rossi, D., & Sciacca, F. (2011). Non-destructive Control of Metallic Plate with Magnetic Techniques. In S. C. Mukhopadhyay, A. Lay-Ekuakille, & A. Fuchs (Eds.), New Developments and Applications in Sensing Technology (pp. 107–122). 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 Economic Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, August 8). Can Wormholes Fix A Major Problem With Black Holes? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/can-wormholes-fix-a-major-problem-with-black-holes/

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. (1982). Need To Reexamine JTIDS Requirements and Architecture (MASAD-82-28). 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

Cardillo-Geller, L. (2010). Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, December 2). Justices to Decide if Citizens May Challenge White House’s Religion-Based Initiative. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2005; Wapenaar & Snieder, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wapenaar & Snieder, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Howard et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0167-4870
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Psychology Sociology and Political Science