How to format your references using the Journal of Banking and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Banking 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

Powell, K., 2003. High-tech, high society. Nature 426, 720–721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lopatin, A.V., Averianov, A.O., 2006. An aegialodontid upper molar and the evolution of mammal dentition. Science 313, 1092.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villegas, P., Moretti, P., Muñoz, M.A., 2014. Frustrated hierarchical synchronization and emergent complexity in the human connectome network. Sci. Rep. 4, 5990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herrero, J.L., Roberts, M.J., Delicato, L.S., Gieselmann, M.A., Dayan, P., Thiele, A., 2008. Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1. Nature 454, 1110–1114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal, R., 2014. Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gullberg, D. (Ed.), 2014. I Domain Integrins, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Duckham, M., Kulik, L., Birtley, A., 2006. A Spatiotemporal Model of Strategies and Counter Strategies for Location Privacy Protection, in: Raubal, M., Miller, H.J., Frank, A.U., Goodchild, M.F. (Eds.), Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–64.

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 Journal of Banking and Finance.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Strange Hallucinations Seem To Be Spreading In A US Hospital [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Goals 2000: Flexible Funding Supports State and Local Education Reform (No. HEHS-99-10). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Villanueva, R., 2015. Issues of performance practice: The influence of Franz Strauss upon Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1997. One of Newest Take-at-Home Tests: I.Q. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lopatin and Averianov, 2006; Powell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lopatin and Averianov, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Herrero et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Banking and Finance
Abbreviation	J. Bank. Financ.
ISSN (print)	0378-4266
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance