How to format your references using the International Review of Financial Analysis citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Europe goes back to basics. Nature, 426(6964), 365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, J., & Lukas, C. (2013). Molecular biology. Shielding broken DNA for a quick fix. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6120), 652–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

McAlary, L., Yerbury, J. J., & Aquilina, J. A. (2013). Glutathionylation potentiates benign superoxide dismutase 1 variants to the toxic forms associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Scientific Reports, 3, 3275.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, J. B., Levanon, E. Y., Yoon, J.-K., Aach, J., Xie, B., Leproust, E., Zhang, K., Gao, Y., & Church, G. M. (2009). Genome-wide identification of human RNA editing sites by parallel DNA capturing and sequencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1210–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi, M. (2007). Stereoselective Synthesis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Kullmann, O. (Ed.). (2009). Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2009: 12th International Conference, SAT 2009, Swansea, UK, June 30 - July 3, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5584). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eyden, B., & Banerjee, S. S. (2013). Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone, and Other Mesenchymal Tumours. In S. S. Banerjee, Y. Ru, & P. Liberski (Eds.), The Ultrastructure of Human Tumours: Applications in Diagnosis and Research (pp. 177–362). 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 Financial Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 6). From Cucumber To Plague-Causing Bacteria, Scientists Examine DNA In New York Subways. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/cucumber-plague-causing-bacteria-scientists-examine-dna-new-york-subways/

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. (1983). Improvements in Certain District of Columbia Public Schools’ Administrative Operations (GGD-83-77). 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

Akers, K. (2017). The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, February 17). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lukas & Lukas, 2013; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lukas & Lukas, 2013)
Three authors: (McAlary et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Financial Analysis
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Fin. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1057-5219
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance