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

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

Graham-Rowe, D., 2011. Agriculture: Beyond food versus fuel. Nature 474, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, W.-P., Yang, Z., 2004. Earthquakes beneath the Himalayas and Tibet: evidence for strong lithospheric mantle. Science 304, 1949–1952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray-Schopfer, V., Wellbrock, C., Marais, R., 2007. Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy. Nature 445, 851–857.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaden, W.E., Wu, T., Kunkel, W.A., Anderson, S.L., 2009. Electronic structure controls reactivity of size-selected Pd clusters adsorbed on TiO2 surfaces. Science 326, 826–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghavami, M., Michael, L.B., Kohno, R., 2006. Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hahn, H., Sidorenko, A., Tiginyanu, I. (Eds.), 2009. Nanoscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications, NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Müller, N., Müller, J., 2016. Giardia, in: Walochnik, J., Duchêne, M. (Eds.), Molecular Parasitology: Protozoan Parasites and Their Molecules. Springer, Vienna, pp. 93–114.

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 Macroeconomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Is There A Moral Centre In Our Brain? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/there-moral-centre-our-brain/ (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, 1993. NASA Procurement: Planning for Pilot Test of New Procurement Procedures Is Adequate (No. NSIAD-94-67). 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

Zaegel, B.M., 2012. An Evaluation of the School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Check In/Check Out Behavior Education Program (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Otis, J., 2017. Unflinching Faith Moors 2 Victims of Hurricane Sandy in Life’s Storms. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Yang, 2004; Graham-Rowe, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Yang, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kaden et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Macroeconomics
Abbreviation	J. Macroecon.
ISSN (print)	0164-0704
Scope	Economics and Econometrics