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

Walsh, R. W. (2005). Astronomy. How is the solar corona heated? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), 51–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mahadevan, L., & Rica, S. (2005). Self-organized origami. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katz, R. F., Spiegelman, M., & Holtzman, B. (2006). The dynamics of melt and shear localization in partially molten aggregates. Nature, 442(7103), 676–679.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lobo-Checa, J., Matena, M., Müller, K., Dil, J. H., Meier, F., Gade, L. H., Jung, T. A., & Stöhr, M. (2009). Band formation from coupled quantum dots formed by a nanoporous network on a copper surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5938), 300–303.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molino Sr., L. N. (2006). Emergency Incident Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gomes, D. A. (2016). Regularity Theory for Mean-Field Game Systems (E. A. Pimentel & V. Voskanyan, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapple, D. G., & Hitchmough, R. A. (2016). Biogeography of New Zealand Lizards. In D. G. Chapple (Ed.), New Zealand Lizards (pp. 109–131). Springer International Publishing.

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, E. (2015, August 28). We Found Only One-Third Of Published Psychology Research Is Reliable – Now What? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/we-found-only-one-third-published-psychology-research-reliable-now-what/

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. (1996). Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-96-29(1)). 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

Greene, G. L. (2015). An Analysis of the Comparison between Classroom Grades Earned with a Standards-Based Grading System and Grade-Level Assessment Scores as Measured by the Missouri Assessment Program [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Rubin, J. P. (2017, April 8). 59 Missiles Don’t Equal a Foreign Policy. New York Times, SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mahadevan & Rica, 2005; Walsh, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Mahadevan & Rica, 2005)
Three authors: (Katz et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Lobo-Checa et al., 2009)

About the journal

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