How to format your references using the International Journal of Financial Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Financial Studies. 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

Lister, A.M. The Role of Behaviour in Adaptive Morphological Evolution of African Proboscideans. Nature 2013, 500, 331–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iijima, S.; Qin, L.-C. Electron Microscopic Characterization of Silver Nanowire Arrays. Science 2002, 296, 611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C.; Rollo, A.; Tittensor, D.P. Comment on “Can We Name Earth’s Species before They Go Extinct?” Science 2013, 341, 237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji, S.; Shi, T.; Qiu, X.; Zhang, J.; Xu, G.; Chen, C.; Jiang, Z.; Ye, C. A Route to Phase Controllable Cu2ZnSn(S(1-x)Se(x))4 Nanocrystals with Tunable Energy Bands. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak, H.; Hoch, H.-U.; Füg, D. Stahltragwerke Im Industriebau; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2010; ISBN 9783433600535.

An edited book

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AMEC and TADA 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4th, 2012, Revised Selected Papers; David, E., Kiekintveld, C., Robu, V., Shehory, O., Stein, S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 136; ISBN 9783642408632.

A chapter in an edited book

Rønning, H. How Much Soft Power Does China Have in Africa? In China’s Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions; Zhang, X., Wasserman, H., Mano, W., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan US: New York, NY, 2016; pp. 65–78 ISBN 9781349713776.

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 International Journal of Financial Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, D. Aboriginal Australians Co-Existed With The Megafauna For At Least 17,000 Years (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Telecommunications: FCC Has Reformed the High-Cost Program, but Oversight and Management Could Be Improved; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, M. Utilizing the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) in a Technology-Based Publishing Program. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2009.

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

Feeney, K. King of Shish Kabob (With Mother-in-Law’s Help). New York Times 2010, NJ11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Financial Studies
Abbreviation	Int. J. Fin. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2227-7072
Scope