How to format your references using the Annals of Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Finance. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Smaglik, P.: A dose of reality. Nature. 432, 655 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaidos, E.J., Nimmo, F.: Tectonics and water on Europa. Nature. 405, 637 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B.: Ice flow of the Antarctic ice sheet. Science. 333, 1427–1430 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thomas, L., Hayashi, M., Jiang, X., Moriya, R., Rettner, C., Parkin, S.S.P.: Oscillatory dependence of current-driven magnetic domain wall motion on current pulse length. Nature. 443, 197–200 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento, L., Smoleny, S.: A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Kawai, M., Lee, J.-W. eds: Rebalancing for Sustainable Growth: Asia’s Postcrisis Challenge. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Bader, M., Bayer, J.: FIRST-PASS PREFERENCES IN SYNTACTIC-FUNCTION AMBIGUITIES. In: Bayer, J. (ed.) CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION: Evidence from German. pp. 87–114. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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 Annals of Finance.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Lost In Translation: Five Common English Phrases You May Be Using Incorrectly, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/lost-in-translation-five-common-english-phrases-you-may-be-using-incorrectly/

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: Special Education: The Attorney Fees Provision of Public Law 99-372. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Penix-Tadsen, P.: Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production, (2009)

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

Wagner, J.: Amid Defensive Woes, Mets Try to Avoid Fumbling an Anticipated Call-Up, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gaidos and Nimmo 2000; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gaidos and Nimmo 2000)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Finance
Abbreviation	Ann. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1614-2446
ISSN (online)	1614-2454
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Finance