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

Blaxter, M. (2010). Genetics. Revealing the dark matter of the genome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6012), 1758–1759.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mettetal, J. T., & van Oudenaarden, A. (2007). Microbiology. Necessary noise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansel, D. E., Eipper, B. A., & Ronnett, G. V. (2001). Neuropeptide Y functions as a neuroproliferative factor. Nature, 410(6831), 940–944.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ogawa, N., Hoshisashi, K., Sekiguchi, H., Ichiyanagi, K., Matsushita, Y., Hirohata, Y., Suzuki, S., Ishikawa, A., & Sasaki, Y. C. (2013). Tracking 3D picometer-scale motions of single nanoparticles with high-energy electron probes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando, A., Worrall, S. T., & Ekmekcioǧlu, E. (2013). 3DTV. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Madhavan, R., Tunstel, E., & Messina, E. (Eds.). (2009). Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Q. (2005). China Putian Promote Commercial TD-SCDMA Services. In Z. Wu, C. Chen, M. Guo, & J. Bu (Eds.), Embedded Software and Systems: First International Conference, ICESS 2004, Hangzhou, China, December 9-10, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 25–29). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 22). What Is This Black Slime Spreading All Over Washington D.C.? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/black-slime-spreading-washington/

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. (2011). Federal Chief Information Officers: Opportunities Exist to Improve Role in Information Technology Management (GAO-11-634). 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

Merkurjev, D. (2015). Understanding Enhancer Role in Transcriptional Response [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Ortved, J. (2017, July 12). Custom Suits At Accessible Prices. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blaxter, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Blaxter, 2010; Mettetal & van Oudenaarden, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mettetal & van Oudenaarden, 2007)
Three authors: (Hansel et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Ogawa et al., 2013)

About the journal

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

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