How to format your references using the Global Finance Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Finance Journal. 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

Kabat, P. (2012). Systems science for policy evaluation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6087), 1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubio, V., & Deng, X. W. (2007). Plant science. Standing on the shoulders of GIGANTEA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5848), 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aviezer, H., Trope, Y., & Todorov, A. (2012). Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6111), 1225–1229.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Marlow, J. R., Lange, C. B., Wefer, G., & Rosell-Mele, A. (2000). Upwelling intensification as part of the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2288–2291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dallas, H. J. (2015). Mastering the Challenges of Leading change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferreira, J. J. M., Raposo, M., Rutten, R., & Varga, A. (Eds.). (2013). Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xin, X., & Liu, Y. (2014). Pendubot. In Y. Liu (Ed.), Control Design and Analysis for Underactuated Robotic Systems (pp. 95–107). 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 Global Finance Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 24). This Guy Hired A Helicopter To Snap The First Image Of A Secret New SpaceX Machine. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1982). The Requirements Determination Process Can Be Improved at NASA’s Langley Research Center (PLRD-82-56). 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

Cannon, J. R. (2012). Microwave-supported acid hydrolysis for proteomics [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Cowan, A. L. (2013, November 20). Family’s Tenacity and Wealth Put Skakel at Cusp of Freedom. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kabat, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kabat, 2012; Rubio & Deng, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rubio & Deng, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Marlow et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Finance Journal
Abbreviation	Glob. Fin. J.
ISSN (print)	1044-0283
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance