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

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

Smaglik P (2004) Up for review. Nature 430:591

A journal article with 2 authors

Kamena F, Spang A (2004) Tip20p prohibits back-fusion of COPII vesicles with the endoplasmic reticulum. Science 304:286–289

A journal article with 3 authors

Long MA, Jin DZ, Fee MS (2010) Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature 468:394–399

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Amoasii L, Hildyard JCW, Li H, et al (2018) Gene editing restores dystrophin expression in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Science 362:86–91

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakir B (2013) Extremes in Random Fields: A Theory and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Isaias P (2015) High Level Models and Methodologies for Information Systems. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Lawson HA, van Veen D (2016) A Planning Framework for the Five Core Components. In: Lawson HA, van Veen D (eds) Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-service Schools and Multi-service Schools: International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–118

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 Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) America Is “Dropping Cyberbombs’ – But How Do They Work? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/america-dropping-cyberbombs-how-do-they-work/. 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 (1995) Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Long-Term Viability. 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

Bailoor S (2016) Implicit-Explicit Time stepping for a Two-Dimensional Inviscid Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Eligon J (2017) Australia Through American Eyes. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kamena and Spang 2004; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kamena and Spang 2004)
Three or more authors: (Amoasii et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics
Abbreviation	J. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0931-8658
ISSN (online)	1617-7134
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics