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

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

Leigh, G.J., 2003. Chemistry. So that’s how it’s done--maybe. Science 301, 55–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abbott, L.F., Regehr, W.G., 2004. Synaptic computation. Nature 431, 796–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharam, G.J., Sinclair, A.R.E., Turkington, R., 2009. Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators. Science 325, 51.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cook, A.G., Fukuhara, N., Jinek, M., Conti, E., 2009. Structures of the tRNA export factor in the nuclear and cytosolic states. Nature 461, 60–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray, B., 2015. The Possibility of Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Allaria, B. (Ed.), 2012. Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Osaba, E., Carballedo, R., Diaz, F., Onieva, E., Perallos, A., 2014. A Proposal of Good Practice in the Formulation and Comparison of Meta-heuristics for Solving Routing Problems, in: Puerta, J.G. de la, Ferreira, I.G., Bringas, P.G., Klett, F., Abraham, A., Carvalho, A.C.P.L.F. de, Herrero, Á., Baruque, B., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (Eds.), International Joint Conference SOCO’14-CISIS’14-ICEUTE’14: Bilbao, Spain, June 25th-27th, 2014, Proceedings, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 31–40.

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 Monetary Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Create “Evolved” Protein That Stops Cancer Spreading In Mice [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1984. Federal Agencies’ Actions To Implement Section 11 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (No. RCED-84-60). 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

Frederick, K., 2009. Wool and Water (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Court Backs Police Officers In Chase That Hurt Driver. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leigh, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott and Regehr, 2004; Leigh, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Abbott and Regehr, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Cook et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Monetary Economics
Abbreviation	J. Monet. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0304-3932
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance