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JEL classifications are just that: classifications. Anyone can put such a classification on his paper, and it doesn't have anything to do with publishing in the JEL - it's more like a keyword. To you …

pick the latest entry on their publication list that roughly covers the project as a whole This sounds like the best you can do in this situation. You should clarify that you are referring to t …

There is a wide variety of conventions, both between disciplines and between journals/conferences within a discipline. There is absolutely no single "academic consensus" we could point you to here. Si …

I would recommend being clear and actually telling the reader what your citations say, not only that they exist. … I always find it very unhelpful when a claim is made in the text and supported with three citations, but I have to look them up myself to see what they actually said. …

+1 to Maarten's answer. In addition: likely enough, the more recent of the 50 studies you mention already cite most of the earlier ones, so the reader can just follow the breadcrumbs back - no need f …

I assume that the venue you want to publish in follows the IEEE editorial style guide. On page 38, the guide shows how to reference standards: Basic Format: [1] Title of Standard, Standard nu …

Yes, you can. Check out an example from the invaluable APA Style Blog: Morin (1988) described two separate but linked epidemics. . . . Morin distinguished the HIV (viral) epidemic from the subse …

Make life easy for your readers. Not everyone may have access to your earlier paper, or it may be hard to get it, so please don't just point to the earlier one. I would recommend putting the notations …

This will depend absolutely on your bibliography style. For instance, the American Psychological Association, which has very detailed guidance and an entire publication manual wants you to do this if …

Typically, "the state of the art" is not monolithic. Rather, it consists of multiple strands or aspects. If your paper addresses the application of technique foo to problem bar, then "the state of the …

Yes, include references. They serve a twofold purpose in your application: They inform the reviewer about the state of the art in your field, and allow him to judge whether your project would advanc …

And all of these factors apply equally well to self-citations and to other-citations. … So a somewhat higher proportion of self-citations, collaborator-citations and likely-reviewer-citations than of other-citations are to be expected, even without any conscious padding going on. …

You are looking for a decision between two alternatives - to cite you: just citing the name of the theorem when I use it in the main work without giving any reference, or rewriting the theorem in th …

@badroit already gave a very good answer on the general question. As to the specific question about AllPsych: this is not a journal per se, it is only a website with submissions from different people …

You cite earlier works either because you directly built on them, or to provide the background against which you are working, and to position your new contribution in the larger context of existing re …