How to format your references using the Journal of The Japanese and International Economies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of The Japanese and International Economies. 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

Aguzzi, A., 2014. Neurodegeneration: Alzheimer’s disease under strain. Nature 512, 32–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wyithe, J.S.B., Loeb, A., 2004. A large neutral fraction of cosmic hydrogen a billion years after the Big Bang. Nature 427, 815–817.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fry, S.N., Sayaman, R., Dickinson, M.H., 2003. The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila. Science 300, 495–498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, Y., Wang, L.-X., Ke, X., Van Tendeloo, G., Wu, X.-S., Yu, D.-P., Liao, Z.-M., 2014. High-mobility Bi2Se3 nanoplates manifesting quantum oscillations of surface states in the sidewalls. Sci. Rep. 4, 3817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mishra, A.R., 2010. Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lemmon, D.R., 2005. Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95, Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, C.-W., Chan, L.-W., Tsai, Y.-P., Hung, Y.-P., 2006. Augmented Stereo Panoramas, in: Narayanan, P.J., Nayar, S.K., Shum, H.-Y. (Eds.), Computer Vision – ACCV 2006: 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2006. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–49.

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 The Japanese and International Economies.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Carnivores In Captivity: A Question Of Motive And Ethics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/carnivores-captivity-question-motive-and-ethics/ (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, 2003. Electronic Government: Success of the Office of Management and Budget’s 25 Initiatives Depends on Effective Management and Oversight (No. GAO-03-495T). 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

Vespa, M.C., 2013. System Identification and Compensation Using a Surface-Bristle Deflection Model (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Branch, J., Kovaleski, S.F., Tavernise, S., 2017. Gunman Methodically Chased Gambling’s Highs. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aguzzi, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi, 2014; Wyithe and Loeb, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wyithe and Loeb, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of The Japanese and International Economies
Abbreviation	J. Jpn. Int. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0889-1583
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance Political Science and International Relations