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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). 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

Leggett, A.J. (2005), “The quantum measurement problem,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 871–872.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huynh, K.D., and J.T. Lee (2003), “Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos,” Nature, 426(6968), 857–862.

A journal article with 3 authors

Insel, T.R., S.C. Landis, and F.S. Collins (2013), “Research priorities. The NIH BRAIN Initiative,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 687–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Daffis, S., K.J. Szretter, J. Schriewer, J. Li, S. Youn, J. Errett, T.-Y. Lin, S. Schneller, R. Zust, H. Dong, V. Thiel, G.C. Sen, V. Fensterl, W.B. Klimstra, T.C. Pierson, R.M. Buller, M. Gale Jr, P.-Y. Shi, and M.S. Diamond (2010), “2’-O methylation of the viral mRNA cap evades host restriction by IFIT family members,” Nature, 468(7322), 452–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby, K.A. (2013), Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Scoffone, C.M., A. Hoznek, and C.M. Cracco (eds.) (2014), Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and ECIRS: The New Way of Interpreting PNL, Springer, Paris.

A chapter in an edited book

Ata, A. (2009), “Novel Bioactive Natural Products from Marine and Terrestrial Sources,” in: B. Şener (ed.), Innovations in Chemical Biology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–60.

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 Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015), Three New Species Of “Dwarf Dragons” Discovered In South America, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/here-be-dwarf-dragons/, accessed October 30, 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 (1998), “Executive Guide: Measuring Performance and Demonstrating Results of Information Technology Investments,” No. AIMD-98-89, 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

Ready, C. (2014), Preventing childhood obesity in foster children: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Latimer, M. (2016), “Republicans Ignore a Poisoned City,” New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leggett, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Leggett, 2005; Huynh and Lee, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Huynh and Lee, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Daffis et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Abbreviation	J. Inst. Theor. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0932-4569
ISSN (online)	1614-0559
Scope	Economics and Econometrics