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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Yayanos, A. A. (2002). Are cells viable at gigapascal pressures? Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 295.
A journal article with 2 authors
Jaeger, J.-J., & Marivaux, L. (2005). Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 244–245.
A journal article with 3 authors
Gitlin, L., Karelsky, S., & Andino, R. (2002). Short interfering RNA confers intracellular antiviral immunity in human cells. Nature, 418(6896), 430–434.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Seelert, H., Poetsch, A., Dencher, N. A., Engel, A., Stahlberg, H., & Müller, D. J. (2000). Structural biology. Proton-powered turbine of a plant motor. Nature, 405(6785), 418–419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Weiss, A. (2009). Getting Started in Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Bruno, I., Jany-Catrice, F., & Touchelay, B. (Eds.). (2016). The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies (Vol. 13). Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Bergamasco, M., Frisoli, A., & Avizzano, C. A. (2007). Exoskeletons as Man-Machine Interface Systems for Teleoperation and Interaction in Virtual Environments. In M. Ferre, M. Buss, R. Aracil, C. Melchiorri, & C. Balaguer (Eds.), Advances in Telerobotics (pp. 61–76). Springer.

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
O`Callaghan, J. (2016, December 16). NASA Plans Exo-Brake Parachute Test To Bring Satellites Out Of Orbit. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-plans-exo-brake-parachute-test-to-bring-satellites-out-of-orbit/

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. (1973). Surface Effect Ships (093812). 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
Brugna, R. A. (2008). Augmenting the clinical clerkship curriculum of a physician assistant training program with distance education technology: Educational outcomes and student perceptions [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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
Ginsburg, R. B. (2016, October 1). R.B.G.’s Advice for Living. New York Times, SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yayanos, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jaeger & Marivaux, 2005; Yayanos, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Jaeger & Marivaux, 2005)
  • Three authors: (Gitlin et al., 2002)
  • 6 or more authors: (Seelert et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleBorsa Istanbul Review
ISSN (print)2214-8450
Scope

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