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

Finkelstein, G. (2001). Essays on science and society. Romanticism, race, and recapitulation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2101–2102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, T. J., & Lilley, D. M. J. (2009). Biochemistry. The evolution of ribozyme chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1436–1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Q., Tao, H. W., & Poo, M.-M. (2003). Reversal and stabilization of synaptic modifications in a developing visual system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1953–1957.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Q., Sun, X., Watt, E. D., & Al-Hashimi, H. M. (2006). Resolving the motional modes that code for RNA adaptation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), 653–656.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter, D. A. (2014). A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cai, T., & Bjerklund Johansen, T. E. (Eds.). (2016). Prostatitis and Its Management: Concepts and Recommendations for Clinical Practice (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Imura, K., & Okamoto, H. (2011). Near-Field Optical Imaging of Wavefunctions and Optical Fields in Plasmonic Nanostructures. In M. Ohtsu (Ed.), Progress in Nanophotonics 1 (pp. 127–160). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 5). Scientists Freeze Atoms to Near Absolute Zero. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-freeze-atoms-absolute-zero-microwaves/. 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. (2002). Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems (No. GAO-02-347T). 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

Shimizu, K. (2013). The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

McKINLEY, J., Mueller, B., & Rojas, R. (2015, October 17). Witness Says Clash Over Witchcraft Preceded a Teenager’s Fatal Beating. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finkelstein 2001; Wilson and Lilley 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Lilley 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2006)

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