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

Simmons R. 2001. Sense and sensibility. Nature. 411(6835):243

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith L, Dunn B. 2015. Batteries. Opening the window for aqueous electrolytes. Science. 350(6263):918

A journal article with 3 authors

Moseley RL, Pulvermüller F, Shtyrov Y. 2013. Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms. Sci. Rep. 3:1928

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang S, Zhang J, Baker AA, Wang S, Yu G, Hesjedal T. 2014. Three dimensional magnetic abacus memory. Sci. Rep. 4:6109

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V. 2012. The Years. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Guillet F, Pinaud B, Venturini G, Zighed DA, eds. 2014. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 4, Vol. 527. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida A, Rebelo F, Noriega P. 2016. Development of a Virtual Environment for Safety Warnings Behavior Compliance Evaluation. In Advances in Ergonomics in Design: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, eds. F Rebelo, M Soares, pp. 35–42. 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

Andrew E. 2015. GM Crop Ban: How Scottish Salmon – And Public Health – Could Have Benefited From This Technology. 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. 2009. Telecommunications: Current Broadband Measures Have Limitations and New Measures Are Promising but Need Improvement. GAO-10-49, 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

Zavala M. 2009. Latinos’ attitudes towards receiving mental health services. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD. 2017. President Questions Clinton Ties To Russia. New York Times, June 15, , p. A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Simmons 2001; Smith & Dunn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Smith & Dunn 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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