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

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

Taylor, W.R., 2000. A deeply knotted protein structure and how it might fold. Nature 406, 916–919.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reynolds, T.B., Fink, G.R., 2001. Bakers’ yeast, a model for fungal biofilm formation. Science 291, 878–881.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branco, T., Clark, B.A., Häusser, M., 2010. Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons. Science 329, 1671–1675.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakahata, Y., Sahar, S., Astarita, G., Kaluzova, M., Sassone-Corsi, P., 2009. Circadian control of the NAD+ salvage pathway by CLOCK-SIRT1. Science 324, 654–657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer, D.J., Treister, N.S., Pinto, A., 2013. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Jann, M.W., Penzak, S.R., Cohen, L.J. (Eds.), 2016. Applied Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Psychopharmacological Agents, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cattaneo, G., Ciucci, D., Bianucci, D., 2008. Entropy and Co–entropy of Partitions and Coverings with Applications to Roughness Theory, in: Bello, R., Falcón, R., Pedrycz, W., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.), Granular Computing: At the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–77.

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 Mathematical Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Report Warns Of Human-Induced Earthquakes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/report-warns-human-induced-earthquakes/ (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, 1999. Technology Transfer: Number and Characteristics of Inventions Licensed by Six Federal Agencies (No. RCED-99-173). 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

Sumi, S.J., 2015. Eco-Hydrology Driven Evaluation of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations over Louisiana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Shpigel, B., 2016. Don’t Let a Dallas Receiver’s Size Fool You. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Reynolds and Fink, 2001; Taylor, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Reynolds and Fink, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Nakahata et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Economics
Abbreviation	J. Math. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0304-4068
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Applied Mathematics