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

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

Blow, N., 2008. Cell imaging: New ways to see a smaller world. Nature 456, 825–828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Modlin, R.L., Sieling, P.A., 2005. Immunology. Now presenting: gammadelta T cells. Science 309, 252–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue, P., Qin, H., Tang, B., 2014. Trapping photons on the line: controllable dynamics of a quantum walk. Sci. Rep. 4, 4825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Forbes, A.A., Powell, T.H.Q., Stelinski, L.L., Smith, J.J., Feder, J.L., 2009. Sequential sympatric speciation across trophic levels. Science 323, 776–779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., Grossman, S., 2007. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Presutti, V., d’Amato, C., Gandon, F., d’Aquin, M., Staab, S., Tordai, A. (Eds.), 2014. The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tjosvold, D., Wan, P., Tang, M.M.L., 2016. Trust and Managing Conflict: Partners in Developing Organizations, in: Elgoibar, P., Euwema, M., Munduate, L. (Eds.), Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations, Industrial Relations & Conflict Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–74.

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 International Economics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. How Trees Communicate Via A Wood Wide Web [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-trees-communicate-via-a-wood-wide-web/ (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, 1971. Involvement of the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the Development of an Information System Called the College Suggestor (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Williams, A.P., 2012. Reentry of Substance Abusing Female Ex-Offenders from Prison to an Urban Community (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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, D., 2003. It’s 8 O’Clock. Time for the Penguin to Explode. New York Times 742.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2008; Modlin and Sieling, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Modlin and Sieling, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Forbes et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Economics
Abbreviation	J. Int. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0022-1996
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance