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

Cook, R.F., 2010. Materials science. Probing the nanoscale. Science 328, 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, C.F., Linton, K.J., 2001. Structural biology. The xyz of ABC transporters. Science 293, 1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLeod, N., Benfield, M., Culverhouse, P., 2010. Time to automate identification. Nature 467, 154–155.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stites, E.C., Trampont, P.C., Ma, Z., Ravichandran, K.S., 2007. Network analysis of oncogenic Ras activation in cancer. Science 318, 463–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G.A., Jackson, P., 2005. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Letfullin, R.R., 2016. Computational Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology: Lectures with Computer Practicums. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Saidin, N.F.B., Chong, C.K., Choon, Y.W., Chai, L.E., Deris, S., Illias, R.M., Shamsir, M.S., Mohamad, M.S., 2013. Using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) on Kinetic Modeling of the Acetoin Production in Lactococcus Lactis C7, in: Sidhu, A.S., Dhillon, S.K. (Eds.), Advances in Biomedical Infrastructure 2013: Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Data Infrastructure (BDI 2013), Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–35.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. No, The EM Drive Will Not Lead To Warp Travel Any Time Soon [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-em-drive-will-not-lead-warp-travel-any-time-soon/ (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, 1991. Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed (No. IMTEC-91-48). 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

Cooper, J.B., 2008. Examining the relationship between grade configuration and teachers’ perceptions of working conditions in public K–8 schools and middle schools in North Carolina (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Feeney, K., 2008. Cuban Comfort. New York Times NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cook, 2010; Higgins and Linton, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Higgins and Linton, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stites et al., 2007)

About the journal

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