How to format your references using the International Tax and Public Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Tax and Public 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lawrence, P. A. (2008). Retiring retirement. Nature, 453(7195), 588–590.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman, B. S., & Werb, Z. (2002). Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1046–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gitlin, L., Karelsky, S., & Andino, R. (2002). Short interfering RNA confers intracellular antiviral immunity in human cells. Nature, 418(6896), 430–434.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Phillips, L. R., Milescu, M., Li-Smerin, Y., Mindell, J. A., Kim, J. I., & Swartz, K. J. (2005). Voltage-sensor activation with a tarantula toxin as cargo. Nature, 436(7052), 857–860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summers, N. (2010). Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Popescu-Belis, A., & Stiefelhagen, R. (Eds.). (2008). Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: 5th International Workshop, MLMI 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 8-10, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5237). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Graf, J., Hecker, M., Mohr, M., & Snelting, G. (2016). Tool Demonstration: JOANA. In F. Piessens & L. Viganò (Eds.), Principles of Security and Trust: 5th International Conference, POST 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2–8, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 89–93). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Tax and Public Finance.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 2). Bonobo Study Reveals Our Ancestors Likely Had Less Body Fat and More Muscle Mass. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bonobo-dissections-reveal-selection-pressures-our-ancestors/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1988). Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations (No. RCED-88-77). Washington, DC: 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

Bearden, B. A. (2008). Followership as perceived by leaders in a multidisciplinary healthcare organization (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, November 7). Job Bias Case Turns on Filing Right Form. New York Times, p. A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawrence 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lawrence 2008; Wiseman and Werb 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wiseman and Werb 2002)
Three or more authors: (Phillips et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Tax and Public Finance
Abbreviation	Int. Tax Publ. Fin.
ISSN (print)	0927-5940
ISSN (online)	1573-6970
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance