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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Quantitative 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ryan, Michael J. 2011. Replication in field biology: the case of the frog-eating bat. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 1229–1230.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rabinowitz, Joshua D., and Eileen White. 2010. Autophagy and metabolism. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330: 1344–1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bouvier, Florence, Odette Dogbo, and Bilal Camara. 2003. Biosynthesis of the food and cosmetic plant pigment bixin (annatto). Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 2089–2091.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sharifi, S., S. Daghighi, M. M. Motazacker, B. Badlou, B. Sanjabi, A. Akbarkhanzadeh, A. T. Rowshani, S. Laurent, M. P. Peppelenbosch, and F. Rezaee. 2013. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles alter expression of obesity and T2D-associated risk genes in human adipocytes. Scientific reports 3: 2173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev, Kairat T. 2011. Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shetty, Kirti, and George Y. Wu, ed. 2010. Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Clinical Gastroenterology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Sauer, Birgit. 2016. Gender and Citizenship: Governing Muslim Body Covering in Europe. In Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion: European Perspectives, ed. Lena Gemzöe, Marja-Liisa Keinänen, and Avril Maddrell, 105–129. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Quantitative Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. Crossing When Black? It’ll Take Longer. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 19.

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. 1989. Special Education: Congressional Action Needed to Improve Chapter 1 Handicapped Program. HRD-89-54. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tasoff, Alexander J. 2017. Quantifying the Genetic Capacity of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) to Adapt to Ocean Acidification. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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, Kevin. 2002. Making My Own Music. New York Times, October 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ryan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Rabinowitz and White 2010; Ryan 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rabinowitz and White 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sharifi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Quantitative Economics
Abbreviation	J. Quant. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0971-1554
ISSN (online)	2364-1045
Scope