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

Grady, E. F. (2007). Cell signaling. Beta-arrestin, a two-fisted terminator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5812), 605–606.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seo, M., & Hillmyer, M. A. (2012). Reticulated nanoporous polymers by controlled polymerization-induced microphase separation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6087), 1422–1425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howes, P. D., Chandrawati, R., & Stevens, M. M. (2014). Bionanotechnology. Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6205), 1247390.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Silverman, R. H., Das Gupta, J., Lombardi, V. C., Ruscetti, F. W., Pfost, M. A., Hagen, K. S., Peterson, D. L., Ruscetti, S. K., Bagni, R. K., Petrow-Sadowski, C., Gold, B., Dean, M., & Mikovits, J. A. (2011). Partial retraction. Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6053), 176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cousley, R. R. J. (2013). The Orthodontic Mini-Implant Clinical Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gini, M., & Voyles, R. (Eds.). (2006). Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7. Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar, K. P. K., & Geethakumari, G. (2014). Analysis of Semantic Attacks in Online Social Networks. In G. Martínez Pérez, S. M. Thampi, R. Ko, & L. Shu (Eds.), Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: Second International Conference, SNDS 2014, Trivandrum, India, March 13-14, 2014, Proceedings (pp. 45–56). 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

Andrew, D. (2017, January 11). Why Are Most People Right Handed? The Answer May Be In The Mouths Of Our Ancestors. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-most-people-right-handed-the-answer-may-be-in-the-mouths-of-our-ancestors/

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. (1978). Need for Active Alcohol Public Education Program (088681). 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

Belletti, A. (2017). Trumpet Practice: Habits and Goals [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Schmidt, S. (2016, September 16). In City Rich in History, Unusual Plan to Preserve Poet’s Home. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grady, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Grady, 2007; Seo & Hillmyer, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Seo & Hillmyer, 2012)
Three authors: (Howes et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Silverman et al., 2011)

About the journal

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