How to format your references using the International Review of Economics and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review of Economics and Finance. 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

Schwille, P. (2011). Bottom-up synthetic biology: engineering in a tinkerer’s world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1252–1254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. R. G., & Sen, G. C. (2003). Immunology. A viral on/off switch for interferon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622), 1100–1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland, N. D., Holland, L. Z., & Holland, P. W. H. (2015). Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature, 520(7548), 450–455.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tucci, S., Vohr, S. H., McCoy, R. C., Vernot, B., Robinson, M. R., Barbieri, C., Nelson, B. J., Fu, W., Purnomo, G. A., Sudoyo, H., Eichler, E. E., Barbujani, G., Visscher, P. M., Akey, J. M., & Green, R. E. (2018). Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6401), 511–516.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziska, L. H., & Dukes, J. S. (2010). Weed Biology and Climate Change. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Yi, Z., Crimmins, E. M., Carrière, Y., & Robine, J.-M. (Eds.). (2006). Longer Life and Healthy Aging (Vol. 2). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hosseini, H., & Ulieru, M. (2012). Leveraging Domain Knowledge to Learn Normative Behavior: A Bayesian Approach. In P. Vrancx, M. Knudson, & M. Grześ (Eds.), Adaptive and Learning Agents: International Workshop, ALA 2011, Held at AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 70–84). 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 International Review of Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 22). First “Wind Nebula” Seen Around a Magnetar. 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. (2009). Freight Rail Security: Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Security, but the Federal Strategy Can Be Strengthened and Security Efforts Better Monitored (GAO-09-243). 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

Zhao, J. (2012). Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Kelly, S. (2003, March 9). CHILDREN’S BOOKS. New York Times, 724.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwille, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schwille, 2011; Williams & Sen, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams & Sen, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Tucci et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics and Finance
ISSN (print)	1059-0560
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance