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

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

Smaglik, P., 2003. A team effort. Nature 424, 471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mastrandrea, M.D., Schneider, S.H., 2004. Probabilistic integrated assessment of “dangerous” climate change. Science 304, 571–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abramson, J., Paz, A., Philipson, K.D., 2012. Structural biology. It’s all in the symmetry. Science 335, 669–670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sirajuddin, M., Farkasovsky, M., Hauer, F., Kühlmann, D., Macara, I.G., Weyand, M., Stark, H., Wittinghofer, A., 2007. Structural insight into filament formation by mammalian septins. Nature 449, 311–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maini, A.K., Agrawal, V., 2006. Satellite Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lee, C.T., Wood, D.P. (Eds.), 2010. Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Management, Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S.H., Mun, Y., Choi, H.I., 2008. Improved Curvature Scale Space Based on Image Retrieval Using Dynamic Time Warping, in: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Taniar, D., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2008: International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 30– July 3, 2008, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 32–42.

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 Public Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Vaccines Work Better When Injected In The Morning, Claims Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccinate-mornings/ (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, 1977. Federal Agencies’ Contracting for Research and Development in the Private, Profitmaking Sector (No. PSAD-77-66). 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

Nesbit, P.R., 2014. Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A fresh approach to photogrammetry (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

Shpigel, B., 2017. Cowboys Have It All (Including, Somehow, a Losing Record). New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mastrandrea and Schneider, 2004; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mastrandrea and Schneider, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sirajuddin et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Public Economics
Abbreviation	J. Public Econ.
ISSN (print)	0047-2727
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance