How to format your references using the Borsa Istanbul Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Borsa Istanbul Review. 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

White, B. T. (2012). IBI series winner. Aipotu: simulation from nucleotides to populations and back again. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6093), 424–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bull, J. J., & Parrish, C. R. (2002). Microbiology. A binding contract for anthrax. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5579), 201–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jedema, F. J., Filip, A. T., & Van Wees, B. J. (2002). Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems. Nature, 416(6883), 810.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pereira, M., Pfisterer, U., Rylander, D., Torper, O., Lau, S., Lundblad, M., Grealish, S., & Parmar, M. (2014). Highly efficient generation of induced neurons from human fibroblasts that survive transplantation into the adult rat brain. Scientific Reports, 4, 6330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castañeda, L. B., Arunachalam, V., & Dharmaraja, S. (2012). Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Trobec, R. (2015). Parallel Scientific Computing: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications of Mesh Based and Meshless Methods (G. Kosec, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chantara, W., & Ho, Y.-S. (2015). Object Searching with Combination of Template Matching. In Y.-S. Ho, J. Sang, Y. M. Ro, J. Kim, & F. Wu (Eds.), Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Gwangju, South Korea, September 16-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 32–41). 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 Borsa Istanbul Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 13). Ancient Whale Had a Killer Bone-Breaking Bite. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-whale-had-killer-bone-breaking-bite/

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. (1993). Athletic Department Profiles (HRD-93-24R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clovis, D. J. (2010). The thayer valve and its effect on a generation and beyond [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Rosenberg, E. (2016, October 14). Misconduct Complaint Against Christie Has Merit, Judge Says. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bull & Parrish, 2002; White, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bull & Parrish, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Pereira et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Borsa Istanbul Review
ISSN (print)	2214-8450
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