How to format your references using the The Journal of Economic Asymmetries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Economic Asymmetries. 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

Abbott, A. (2000). Physicists haunted by hints of Higgs boson. Nature, 407(6801), 118.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schumacher, T. N., & Schreiber, R. D. (2015). Neoantigens in cancer immunotherapy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6230), 69–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dickinson, D. J., Nelson, W. J., & Weis, W. I. (2011). A polarized epithelium organized by beta- and alpha-catenin predates cadherin and metazoan origins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6022), 1336–1339.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

White, J. D., Chen, J., Matsiev, D., Auerbach, D. J., & Wodtke, A. M. (2005). Conversion of large-amplitude vibration to electron excitation at a metal surface. Nature, 433(7025), 503–505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni, L., & Perdomo, I. (2013). Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Papasratorn, B., Lavangnananda, K., Chutimaskul, W., & Vanijja, V. (Eds.). (2010). Advances in Information Technology: 4th International Conference, IAIT 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-5, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 114). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Banerjee, A., & Sur, B. (2014). Primitive Channels: Concurrency Control. In B. Sur (Ed.), SystemC and SystemC-AMS in Practice: SystemC 2.3, 2.2 and SystemC-AMS 1.0 (pp. 13–24). 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 The Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 7). People Are Freaking Out Over This Dead “Mermaid” On A UK Beach. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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). Examination of Financial Operations for Fiscal Year 1975 Shows Need for Improvements in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (FOD-76-23). 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

Strand, K. (2014). Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, December 30). Some Northern Flair for a Pinstripe Affair. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2000; Schumacher & Schreiber, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schumacher & Schreiber, 2015)
Three or more authors: (White et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Asymmetries
ISSN (print)	1703-4949
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance