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

Gough, D. Astronomy. How Oblate Is the Sun? Science 2012, 337, 1611–1612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinck, S.; Schiermeier, Q. Will Industry Play a Bigger Role in Europe’s Aims to Promote Mobility among Postdocs? Nature 2003, 421, 296–297.

A journal article with 3 authors

GrandPré, T.; Li, S.; Strittmatter, S.M. Nogo-66 Receptor Antagonist Peptide Promotes Axonal Regeneration. Nature 2002, 417, 547–551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Curie, C.; Panaviene, Z.; Loulergue, C.; Dellaporta, S.L.; Briat, J.F.; Walker, E.L. Maize Yellow Stripe1 Encodes a Membrane Protein Directly Involved in Fe(III) Uptake. Nature 2001, 409, 346–349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Senez, V.; Thomy, V.; Dufour, R. Nanotechnologies for Synthetic Super Non-Wetting Surfaces; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781119015093.

An edited book

Computer Security in the 21st Century; Lee, D.T., Shieh, S.P., Tygar, J.D., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2005; ISBN 9780387240053.

A chapter in an edited book

Aho, T. Reality TV and Its Audiences Reconsidered: Class and Poverty in Undercover Boss (CBS). In Class Divisions in Serial Television; Lemke, S., Schniedermann, W., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; pp. 89–117 ISBN 9781137594488.

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, E. Beetle’s Skin Hides Natural Light Nanotechnology (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 Federal Highway Administration: Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operations, Lighting Devices, Reflectors, and Electrical Equipment; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Banerjee, S. A Mathematical Model for the Transition in Firing Patterns across Puberty of a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neuron. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2013.

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

Billard, M. Warhol, Target: It’s All Good. New York Times 2010, E5.

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