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

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

Fauci, A.S.: Biodefence on the research agenda. Nature. 421, 787 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Federman, S.R., Young, E.D.: Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science. 324, 1516; author reply 1516 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Grund, T., Waloszek, C., Helbing, D.: How natural selection can create both self- and other-regarding preferences, and networked minds. Sci. Rep. 3, 1480 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bottjer, D.J., Davidson, E.H., Peterson, K.J., Cameron, R.A.: Paleogenomics of echinoderms. Science. 314, 956–960 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, E.M., Kamal-Eldin, A.: Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2013)

An edited book

Ben-Daya, M., Duffuaa, S.O., Raouf, A., Knezevic, J., Ait-Kadi, D. eds: Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering. Springer, London (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Charoenpanitseri, W., Punnim, N., Uiyyasathian, C.: On Non 3-Choosable Bipartite Graphs. In: Akiyama, J., Kano, M., and Sakai, T. (eds.) Computational Geometry and Graphs: Thailand-Japan Joint Conference, TJJCCGG 2012, Bangkok, Thailand, December 6-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 42–56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Inequality.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Collapsed Ice Lake Led to Catastrophic Martian Flood, https://www.iflscience.com/space/collapsed-ice-lake-led-catastrophic-martian-flood/

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: NASA Budget: Potential Shortfalls in Funding NASA’s 5-Year Plan. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1992)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blanchard, E.J.: Legato trombone: A survey of pedagogical resources, (2010)

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.: Justices Decline Church-State Case Involving a Kindergarten Poster of Jesus, (2006)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Economic Inequality
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Inequal.
ISSN (print)	1569-1721
ISSN (online)	1573-8701
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Sociology and Political Science