Economics Journals: Acronyms 

Journal acronyms as used throughout this website are noted below.  For the "formal" acronyms used by the AEA, see their Journal Abbreviation List.   This list of journals is not complete (if country not noted, assume "international").  See also our brief (and highly speculative) history of the development of economics journals, which includes more journals and links.

• AAPSS - American Academy of Political and Social Science (USA)
• AER - American Economic Review (USA)
• AMS - American Mathematical Society (USA)
• Australian EP - Australian Economic Papers (Australia)
• BNLQR - Banca Nazionale de Lavoro Quarterly Review (Italy)
• Bell JE - Bell Journal of Economics (USA)
• BPEA - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (USA)
• Bulletin MSS - Bulletin of the Manchester Statistical Society (UK)
• Canadian JE - Canadian Journal of Economics (Canada)
• Cambridge JE - Cambridge Journal of Economics (UK)
• Challenge (USA)
• CROCH - Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy of the JME (USA)
• Daedalus
• De Economist (Netherlands)
• Eastern EJ - Eastern Economic Journal (USA)
• Econometrica
• Econ App - Economie Appliquée (France)
• Econ Dev & Cult Chng - Economic Development and Cultural Change (USA)
• Econ Inq - Economic Inquiry (prev. Western EJ) (USA)
• Econ Int - Economia Internazionale (Italy)
• Econ Lett - Economic Letters
• EJ - Economic Journal (UK)
• Econ Rec - Economic Record (Australia)
• Economica (UK)
• Economie et Societe (France)
• ESQ - Economic Studies Quarterly (Japan)
• Ekon Tidsk - Ekonomisk Tidskrift (later Swedish JE and Scand JE) (Sweden)
• GEB - Games and Economic Behavior (USA)
• GdE - Giornale degli Economisti (Italy)
• HOPE - History of Political Economy (USA)
• HER - History of Economics Review
• IEP - International Economic Papers
• IER - International Economic Review
• IJGT - International Journal of Game Theory
• JASA - Journal of American Statistical Association (USA)
• JEBO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• JEDC - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• JEH - Journal of Economic History
• JEI - Journal of Economic Issues (USA)
• JEL - Journal of Economic Literature (USA)
• JEP - Journal of Economic Perspectives (USA)
• JET - Journal of Economic Theory
• JEvolE - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
• JDE - Journal of Development Economics
• JfGVV - Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft (ex-Schmollers Jahrbuch) (Germany)
• JFin - Journal of Finance
• JIE - Journal of International Economics
• JITE -  Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Germany, ex-ZfGS)
• JLawE - Journal of Law and Economics (USA)
• JMCB - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (USA)
• JMathE - Journal of Mathematical Economics
• JME - Journal of Monetary Economics
• JNS - Jahrbucher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (German)
• JPE - Journal of Political Economy (USA)
• JPKE - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (USA)
• JPubE - Journal of Public Economics
• JRRS - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (UK)
• Kyklos (Germany)
• Lloyds BR - Lloyds Bank Review (UK)
• Manch Sch - Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies (UK)
• Metroec - Metroeconomica
• MR - Monthly Review (USA)
• NAS - National Academy of Sciences (USA)
• Osaka EP - Osaka Economic Papers (Japan)
• Oxford EP - Oxford Economic Papers (UK)
• PASSV - Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia (Vatican City)
• PDR - Population and Development Review
• PSQ - Political Science Quarterly (USA)
• Phil Trans RS - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• QJE - Quarterly Journal of Economics (USA)
• Rand JE - RAND Journal of Economics (USA)
• Revue EP - Revue d'Economique Politique (France)
• Revue Economique
• Revue Econ Soc - Revue Economique et Sociale (Switz.)
• RES - Review of Economic Studies (UK)
• REStat - Review of Economics and Statistics (USA)
• RISE - Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciale (Italy)
• ROPE - Review of Political Economy
• RRPE - Review of Radical Political Economy
• SAJE - South African Journal of Economics
• Scand JE - Scandanavian Journal of Economics (prev. Ekon Tidsk, Swedish JE) (Sweden)
• SCED - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
• Scottish JPE - Scottish Journal of Political Economy (UK)
• Schmollers Jahrbuch - Schmollers Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft (now: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften) (Germany)
• Swedish JE - Swedish Journal of Economics (prev. Ekon Tidks; later Scand JE) (Sweden)
• SEJ - Southern Economic Journal (USA)
• Thames Papers - Thames Papers in Political Economy (UK)
• WEJ - Western Economic Journal (later Econ Inq) (USA)
• WWA - Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Germany)
• ZfN - Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie (a.k.a. Journal of Economics) (Germany)
• ZfPolitik - Zeitschrift für Politik. (Austria?)
• ZfVS - Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik. (Austria)
• ZfVSV - Zeitschrift fur Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung. (Austria)
• ZfGS - Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft (now JITE) (Germany)

Resources

• Electronic Journals on the Web - at SUNY Oswego
• Economics Journals links page
• Britannica's account of the development of the encyclopedia and magazine publishing.
• Spartacus Website on  British 19th Century Journalism
• Paulette Taieb's  "Le Jardin aux Sentiers qui Bifurquent" 
• E-Journal Collections: CIC Electronic Journals Collection (USA),  Bibliothèque Virtuelle de Périodiques (France)