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

Dermitzakis, E. T. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Genome literacy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 689–690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, J., & Zuo, Y. (2015). Neuroscience: Forgetfulness illuminated. Nature, 525(7569), 324–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koh, K., Zheng, X., & Sehgal, A. (2006). JETLAG resets the Drosophila circadian clock by promoting light-induced degradation of TIMELESS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5781), 1809–1812.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bose, A., Guilherme, A., Robida, S. I., Nicoloro, S. M. C., Zhou, Q. L., Jiang, Z. Y., Pomerleau, D. P., & Czech, M. P. (2002). Glucose transporter recycling in response to insulin is facilitated by myosin Myo1c. Nature, 420(6917), 821–824.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, E., Nel, D., & Ólafsson, S. (2014). Problems and Solutions in Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ananthasuresh, G. K., Corves, B., & Petuya, V. (Eds.). (2012). Micromechanics and Microactuators: Proceedings of MAMM 2010, Aachen, Germany, May 27-29, 2010 (Vol. 2). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gupta, A. N., & Santhi Thilagam, P. (2016). Detection of XML Signature Wrapping Attack Using Node Counting. In V. Vijayakumar & V. Neelanarayanan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges (ISBCC – 16’) (pp. 57–63). 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 Financial Analysis.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 26). Trilobites Migrated Across The Ocean Floor In Single File. 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. (1995). Comments on Deletion of FTS 2000 Provision from 1996 Appropriation Act (B-261944). 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

Zamudio, R. (2015). From community college to 4-year institutions: Latinas’ successful completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees [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

Crow, K. (2002, April 28). Gently, Neighbors Want Statue to Find a Home. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dermitzakis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dermitzakis, 2011; Lu & Zuo, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lu & Zuo, 2015)
Three authors: (Koh et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Bose et al., 2002)

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