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

Madden, J.D., 2006. Materials science. Artificial muscle begins to breathe. Science 311, 1559–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sablowski, R., Harberd, N.P., 2005. Plant sciences. Plant genes on steroids. Science 307, 1569–1570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, T., Svoboda, K., Malinow, R., 2003. Experience strengthening transmission by driving AMPA receptors into synapses. Science 299, 1585–1588.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhu, M., Lei, B., Ren, F., Chen, P., Shen, Y., Guan, B., Du, Y., Li, T., Liu, M., 2014. Branched Au nanostructures enriched with a uniform facet: facile synthesis and catalytic performances. Sci. Rep. 4, 5259.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev, S.T., Kim, Y.S., Bianchi, M.L., Fabozzi, F.J., 2011. Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Heer, B., 2009. Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rubbia-Brandt, L., Terris, B., 2014. Histopathology and Molecular Pathogenesis of Cholangiocarcinoma, in: Herman, J.M., Pawlik, T.M., Thomas, C.R., Jr. (Eds.), Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–65.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Why We’ll All Learn To Love Genetically Modified Salmonella In The End [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-we-ll-all-learn-love-genetically-modified-salmonella-end/ (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, 1993. Automating Medical Information (No. AIMD-94-47R). 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

Howard, A.G., 2009. Large margin transformation learning (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Sisario, B., 2016. Raynoma Singleton, Early Motown Force, Dies at 79. New York Times A30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Madden, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Madden, 2006; Sablowski and Harberd, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sablowski and Harberd, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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