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

Tepass, U.: Developmental biology: Polarize to elongate. Nature. 515, 499–501 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hla, T., Im, D.-S.: Cell biology. The ABCs of lipophile transport. Science. 323, 883–884 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor, D.M., Tillery, S.I.H., Schwartz, A.B.: Direct cortical control of 3D neuroprosthetic devices. Science. 296, 1829–1832 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herzing, A.A., Kiely, C.J., Carley, A.F., Landon, P., Hutchings, G.J.: Identification of active gold nanoclusters on iron oxide supports for CO oxidation. Science. 321, 1331–1335 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahgat, G.: Energy Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

vom Brocke, J., Seidel, S., Recker, J. eds: Green Business Process Management: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Agassant, J.-F., Covas, J.A.: An Overview of Polymer Processing Modelling. In: Cueto, E. (ed.) Advances in Material Forming: Esaform 10 years on. pp. 37–59. Springer, Paris (2007)

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, E.: Scientists Recreate First Spark Of Life, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-form-building-blocks-life-recreating-asteroid-collision/

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: Charter Schools: To Enhance Education’s Monitoring and Research, More Charter School-Level Data Are Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hendricks, J.: Playing-With the World: Toy Story’s Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play, (2017)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Bill to Ease Puerto Rico Through $72 Billion Debt Crisis Introduced in House, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tepass 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hla and Im 2009; Tepass 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hla and Im 2009)
Three or more authors: (Herzing et al. 2008)

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