How to format your references using the Finance Research Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Finance Research Letters. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gewin, V., 2005. Industry lured by the gains of going green. Nature 436, 173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Queller, D.C., Strassmann, J.E., 2002. The many selves of social insects. Science 296, 311–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos, M.D., Dorogovtsev, S.N., Mendes, J.F.F., 2014. Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 4436.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ober, E.A., Verkade, H., Field, H.A., Stainier, D.Y.R., 2006. Mesodermal Wnt2b signalling positively regulates liver specification. Nature 442, 688–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent, O., 2010. IP Telephony. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

P. Dicks, A., 2015. Green Chemistry Metrics: A Guide to Determining and Evaluating Process Greenness, SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pan, H., Gu, J., Han, Q., Feng, X., Xie, X., Li, P., 2014. Medical Image Clustering Algorithm Based on Graph Model, in: Li, K., Xiao, Z., Wang, Y., Du, J., Li, Keqin (Eds.), Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: 25th International Conference, ParCFD 2013, Changsha, China, May 20-24, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54–65.

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 Finance Research Letters.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Beware The Bad Big Wolf: Why You Need To Put Your Adjectives In The Right Order [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/beware-the-bad-big-wolf-why-you-need-to-put-your-adjectives-in-the-right-order/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. Aviation Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers (No. GAO-01-831). 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

Gallegos, C.M., 2009. Shelter services for homeless older adults: A grant writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2016. A Low-Key Birthday for Putin: Just 450 Roses. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2005; Queller and Strassmann, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Queller and Strassmann, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ober et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Finance Research Letters
Abbreviation	Fin. Res. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1544-6123
Scope	Finance