How to format your references using the Annual Review of Financial Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Financial Economics. 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

Crocker J. 2011. The road to fraud starts with a single step. Nature. 479(7372):151

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelley DH, Ouellette NT. 2013. Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms. Sci. Rep. 3:1073

A journal article with 3 authors

Krüger M, Schenk M, Hommelhoff P. 2011. Attosecond control of electrons emitted from a nanoscale metal tip. Nature. 475(7354):78–81

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goto-Inoue N, Yamada K, Inagaki A, Furuichi Y, Ogino S, et al. 2013. Lipidomics analysis revealed the phospholipid compositional changes in muscle by chronic exercise and high-fat diet. Sci. Rep. 3:3267

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer E. 2015. Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Herrero Á, Sedano J, Baruque B, Quintián H, Corchado E, eds. 2015. 10th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, Vol. 368. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Abbasi S, Manteghi S, Heidarzadegan A, Nemati Y, Parvin H. 2015. A Robust Clustering via Swarm Intelligence. In Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, eds. O Gervasi, B Murgante, S Misra, ML Gavrilova, AMAC Rocha, et al., pp. 55–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Financial Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. Researchers Discover Huge Underground Neolithic “Super-Henge.” IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1999. Research and Development: Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center’s Process for Funding Projects. AIMD-99-277R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Backfish M. 2013. Electron Cloud in Steel Beam Pipe vs Titanium Nitride Coated and Amorphous Carbon Coated Beam Pipes in Fermilab’s Main Injector. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Indiana University

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

Ewing J, Tabuchi H, Protess B. 2017. Volkswagen Said to Be Near Deal With U.S. in Diesel Case. New York Times, Jan. 6, , p. B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crocker 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Crocker 2011; Kelley & Ouellette 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kelley & Ouellette 2013)
Three or more authors: (Goto-Inoue et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Financial Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Fin. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1941-1367
ISSN (online)	1941-1375
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance