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

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

Zoback, M.D., 2000. Earth science. Strength of the San Andreas. Nature 405, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruun, E., Givoni, M., 2015. Sustainable mobility: Six research routes to steer transport policy. Nature 523, 29–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abramson, J., Paz, A., Philipson, K.D., 2012. Structural biology. It’s all in the symmetry. Science 335, 669–670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, R., Kermani, P., Teng, K.K., Hempstead, B.L., 2001. Regulation of cell survival by secreted proneurotrophins. Science 294, 1945–1948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richter, D.H., 2017. Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Benson, M., Fixsen, J., Macnicol, M., Parsch, K. (Eds.), 2009. Children’s Orthopaedics and Fractures. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Frank, A.U., 2009. Why Is Scale an Effective Descriptor for Data Quality? The Physical and Ontological Rationale for Imprecision and Level of Detail, in: Navratil, G. (Ed.), Research Trends in Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–61.

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 Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. See If You Can Solve These 6 Fiendish Brain-Teasers Written By NSA Employees [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/see-if-you-can-solve-these-6-fiendish-brain-teasers-written-by-nsa-employees/ (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, 1980. A Look at NASA’s Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program (No. PSAD-80-50). 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

Shakya, M., 2017. Planter Boxes and Rain Gardens for Urban Stormwater Management: Performance of Extended Field Application (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, C., 2013. Texas Film: It’s Not Just About Slackers Anymore. New York Times A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoback, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bruun and Givoni, 2015; Zoback, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bruun and Givoni, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Exp. Finance
ISSN (print)	2214-6350
Scope	Finance