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

Sheen, J. (2002). Phosphorelay and transcription control in cytokinin signal transduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1650–1652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gatfield, D., & Schibler, U. (2007). Physiology. Proteasomes keep the circadian clock ticking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5828), 1135–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, Y., Kirmizialtin, S., & Sanchez, I. C. (2014). Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4011.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, D.-B., Cheng, Y.-Y., Wu, C., Li, W.-W., Li, N., Yang, Z.-C., Tong, Z.-H., & Yu, H.-Q. (2014). Selenite reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is mediated by fumarate reductase in periplasm. Scientific Reports, 4, 3735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Somjit, N., Robertson, I., & Chongcheawchamnan, M. (2016). Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Benner Carson, V. (2015). Care Giving for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Compassionate Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones (K. J. Vanderhorst & H. G. Koenig, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Becher, T., Broggio, A., & Ferroglia, A. (2015). Generalization to QCD. In A. Broggio & A. Ferroglia (Eds.), Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (pp. 35–56). 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. (2014, November 21). The Unknown Crocodiles. 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. (2012). Aviation Security: Actions Needed to Address Challenges and Potential Vulnerabilities Related to Securing Inbound Air Cargo (GAO-12-632). 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

Beechey, S. N. (2008). The politics of deservingness: Discourses of gender, race, *class, and age in the 2005 Social Security debates [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Corkery, M. (2017, September 6). Toys ‘R’ Us Is Said To Weigh Bankruptcy. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sheen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gatfield & Schibler, 2007; Sheen, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gatfield & Schibler, 2007)
Three authors: (Jiang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

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