The JPE uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, as its primary manual of style for usage, grammar, and citations. For all articles and symposiums (including book symposiums) it specifically employs the Author-Date Reference citation style, capitalizing all titles (including journal article titles), and with endnotes. Please also ensure that as many DOIs are provided to ensure proper CrossRef referencing. Furthermore, please review the papers published in our issues for actual examples. It also employs the following idiosyncratic conventions noted below.
Introduction of Technical Terms: Any technical terms, and especially those that are homologous with ordinary language terms, should be set in either italics or in quotes, depending on the whether the term is being used (italics) or mentioned (double quotes), to indicate that they are technical terms rather than ordinary language terms.
Non English Terms: Any non-English terms should be italicized and an English translation should be provided in parentheses to make the meaning of the non-English word more accessible.
Use of Gendered Nouns/Pronouns: The JPE asks authors to be mindful of the ascription of genders and their use of gendered pronouns in their work, especially when ascribing genders to the subjects of their examples or when speaking of a generalized group, such as humankind or humanity. Authors who submit work that typically use female subjects in examples with negative connotations will be asked to revise their examples, and the use of the term ‘mankind’ should only be used when referring to the kind to which all men belong rather than humanity in general.
Mutually Inclusive Disjunction (or): The JPE asks authors to use the term ‘or’ only to indicate a mutually inclusive disjunction rather than a mutually exclusive disjunction.
Mutually Exclusive Disjunction (either-or): The JPE asks authors to use the terms ‘either-or’ whenever indicating a mutually exclusive disjunction, and to maintain the use of the term ‘or’ to only indicate a mutually inclusive disjunction.
(Please note that the JPE does not require authors to ensure that their manuscripts conform to the style guidelines before submitting them for consideration. The JPE, however, does require authors to ensure that their final, pre-publication draft conforms to the style guidelines provided at the time of submission. The publication of any accepted manuscript may be delayed if it does not conform to the noted style guidelines.)
Overview of Chicago Manual of Style: The author-date system is used by many in the physical, natural, and social sciences and is recommended by Chicago for works in those areas. Sources are cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by the author’s last (family) name, the publication date of the work cited, and a page number if needed. Full details appear in the reference list—usually titled “References” or “Works Cited”—in which the year of publication appears immediately after the author’s name. This arrangement makes it easy to follow a text citation to the corresponding full source in the reference list. (In electronic formats, text citations may be linked to their corresponding reference list entries.)
City and State (for US) or City and Country Info: For historical reasons, please provide the city and state of publication if the location is in the United States, and city and country information is the location of publication is outside the US.
DOI: Please provide DOI information for all references in which a DOI is available. One can easily check for DOI information through this free Crossref resource: https://www.crossref.org/guestquery/. If providing a weblink DOI, there is no need to indicate that it is a DOI; if providing the DOI number, please indicate that it is a DOI:
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11 (1): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
Ralph. 2017. “Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures.” American Naturalist 89 (5): 463–73. DOI: 10.1086/691233.
Reference list entries:
Bissell, Tom. 2011. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. New York: Vintage Books.
Hutter, Michael. 2011. “Infinite Surprises: Value in the Creative Industries.” In The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy, edited by Jens Beckert and Patrick Aspers, 201–220. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lampel, Joseph, Theresa Lant, and Jamal Shamsie. 2000. “Balancing Act: Learning from Organizing Practices in Cultural Industries.” Organization Science 11 (3): 263–269.
Author-date references versus notes and bibliography: The author-date system differs primarily in its use of parenthetical in-text citations rather than citations in numbered notes and, in the bibliography (called a reference list in author-date style), the placement for the year of publication.
Notes and bibliography entries as models for author-date references: Most reference list entries are identical to entries in a bibliography except for the position of the year of publication, which in a reference list follows the author’s name. Unlike bibliography entries, each entry in the reference list must correspond to a work cited in the text. Text citations differ from citations in notes by presenting only the author’s last name and the year of publication, followed by a page number or other locator, if any.
Basic structure of a reference list entry: In a reference list entry, the year of publication is the second element, following the author’s full name. Otherwise, a reference list entry is structured like an entry in a bibliography: the elements are separated by periods, and the first-listed author’s full name, according to which the entry is alphabetized in the reference list, is usually inverted (last name first). Titles are capitalized headline-style unless they are in a language other than English; titles of larger works such as books and journals are italicized; and titles of smaller works such as journal articles are presented in roman and enclosed in quotation marks. Noun forms such as editor, translator, volume, and edition are abbreviated, but verb forms such as edited by and translated by are spelled out. City of publication should also be included, but do not include state or country information unless it is necessary to do so for historical reasons.
Basic structure of an in-text citation: In the author-date system, a citation in the text usually appears in parentheses and includes only the first two elements in a reference list—the author and the year of publication (hence the name of the system), with no intervening punctuation. A page number or other locator may be added, following a comma. Terms such as editor or translator, abbreviated in a reference list, are omitted from a text citation. In a parenthetical reference to two or more works, a semicolon usually separates each work from the next.
Initial introduction of an author in-text: When initially introducing an author in-text, use the author's full name (according to their preference if known, e.g., bell hooks prefers her name in print to be in all lower case), along with the citation of any relevant text.
To the extent that semantic dualisms is a kind of type-identity theory, I’d like to add that these concerns can be understood against the background of the same kind of concerns that motivated philosophers such as Hilary Putnam (1973, [1967] 1975, 1975), David M. Armstrong (1978a, 1978b), Frank Jackson, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth W. Prior (1982), David Lewis ([1983] 1999), and Saul A. Kripke (1997), as well as Ruth Millikan (1984, 2017), Jerry Fodor (1975, 1983, 1986).
In-text citation without the mention of author's name in-text: Like many other cultural fields, the video game industry is one that rewards novelty, especially when it is packaged in terms that are recognizable to consumers and critics (Lampel, Lant, and Shamsie 2000; Hutter 2011). . . . But the forefront of the industry finds continuous experimentation with the singular challenge of video gaming: how to create a convincing form of narrative storytelling that is nonetheless animated, perhaps uniquely so, by the actions of the users (Bissell 2011).
Author-date system with notes: Where footnotes or endnotes are used to supplement the author-date system, source citations within notes are treated in the same way as in text.
James Wilson has noted that “no politician ever lost votes by denouncing the bureaucracy” (1989, 235). Yet little is actually ever done to bring major reforms to the system.
Book: Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Putnam, Hilary. (1967) 1975. "The Nature of Mental States." Mind, Language, and Reality. Volume 2, Philosophical Papers, pp. 429-440. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Zadie. 2016. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press.
In-text citations:
(Grazer and Fishman 2015, 12)
(Putnam [1967] 1975, 429)
(Smith 2016, 315–16)
Chapter or other part of an edited book: In the reference list, include the page range for the chapter or part. In the text, cite specific pages.
Reference list entry:
Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. “Walking.” In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.
In-text citation:
In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead.
Reference list entry:
In-text citation:
Translated book:
Reference list entry:
In-text citation:
E-book: For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. Reference list entries (in alphabetical order). For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text, if any (or simply omit).
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle.
Borel, Brooke. 2016. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ProQuest Ebrary.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper and Brothers. http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html.
In-text citations:
Journal article: In the reference list, include the page range for the whole article. In the text, cite specific page numbers. For articles consulted online, include the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) as a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/.
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11 (1): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
LaSalle, Peter. 2017. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38 (1): 95–109. Project MUSE.
In-text citations:
Journal articles often list many authors, especially in the sciences. If there are four or more authors, list up to ten in the reference list; in the text, list only the first, followed by et al. (“and others”). For more than ten authors (not shown here), list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.
Reference list entry:
Bay, Rachael A., Noah Rose, Rowan Barrett, Louis Bernatchez, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jesse R. Lasky, Rachel B. Brem, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Peter Ralph. 2017. “Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures.” American Naturalist 89 (5): 463–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/691233.
In-text citation:
News or magazine article: Articles from newspapers or news sites, magazines, blogs, and the like are cited similarly. In the reference list, it can be helpful to repeat the year with sources that are cited also by month and day. Page numbers, if any, can be cited in the text but are omitted from a reference list entry. If you consulted the article online, include a URL or the name of the database.
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Manjoo, Farhad. 2017. “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera.” New York Times, March 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html.
Mead, Rebecca. 2017. “The Prophet of Dystopia.” New Yorker, April 17, 2017.
Pai, Tanya. 2017. “The Squishy, Sugary History of Peeps.” Vox, April 11, 2017. http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/11/15209084/peeps-easter.
Pegoraro, Rob. 2007. “Apple’s iPhone Is Sleek, Smart and Simple.” Washington Post, July 5, 2007. LexisNexis Academic.
In-text citation:
(Manjoo 2017)
(Mead 2017, 43)
(Pai 2017)
(Pegoraro 2007)
Readers’ comments are cited in the text but omitted from a reference list.
In-text citation:
Book review:
Reference list entry:
Kakutani, Michiko. 2016. “Friendship Takes a Path That Diverges.” Review of Swing Time, by Zadie Smith. New York Times, November 7, 2016.
In-text citation:
Interview:
Reference list entry:
Stamper, Kory. 2017. “From ‘F-Bomb’ to ‘Photobomb,’ How the Dictionary Keeps Up with English.” Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, April 19, 2017. Audio, 35:25. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524618639/from-f-bomb-to-photobomb-how-the-dictionary-keeps-up-with-english.
In-text citation:
Thesis or dissertation:
Reference list entry:
In-text citation:
Website content: It is often sufficient simply to describe web pages and other website content in the text (“As of May 1, 2017, Yale’s home page listed . . .”). If a more formal citation is needed, it may be styled like the examples below. For a source that does not list a date of publication or revision, use n.d. (for “no date”) in place of the year and include an access date.
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Bouman, Katie. 2016. “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole.” Filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA. Video, 12:51. Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hole_look_like.
Google. 2017. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Yale University. n.d. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.
In-text citations:
(Bouman 2016)
(Google 2017)
(Yale University, n.d.)
Social media content: Citations of content shared through social media can usually be limited to the text (as in the first example below). If a more formal citation is needed, a reference list entry may be appropriate. In place of a title, quote up to the first 160 characters of the post. Comments are cited in reference to the original post.
Text:
Conan O’Brien’s tweet was characteristically deadpan: “In honor of Earth Day, I’m recycling my tweets” (@ConanOBrien, April 22, 2015).
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order):
Chicago Manual of Style. 2015. “Is the world ready for singular they? We thought so back in 1993.” Facebook, April 17, 2015. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoManual/posts/10152906193679151.
Souza, Pete (@petesouza). 2016. “President Obama bids farewell to President Xi of China at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit.” Instagram photo, April 1, 2016. https://www.instagram.com/p/BDrmfXTtNCt/.
In-text citations:
(Chicago Manual of Style 2015)
(Souza 2016)
(Michele Truty, April 17, 2015, 1:09 p.m., comment on Chicago Manual of Style 2015)
Personal communication: Personal communications, including email and text messages and direct messages sent through social media, are usually cited in the text only, as an endnote; they are rarely included in a reference list. When citing such information, please make sure that the relevance of the citation is clear in the surrounding text, e.g., the topic of the email correspondence.
In-text citation, as a note: